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Search team to check new site for missing plane

Jan 10, 2009 News

Prometheus Resources Guyana Inc. is mobilizing a team to conduct ground searches at Eping, Cuyuni/Mazaruni, after aerial photographs indicated that the Beech King Air plane which went missing last year may have crashed there.
Company official Shazadh Khan told Kaieteur News yesterday that the team is expected to reach the area by Monday.
According to the official, the search party will be operating in extremely harsh terrain and in inclement weather.
He said that the persons who are perusing the photographs identified three other areas where the plane may have crashed.
However, the Eping area is the most promising one, since the army’s Special Forces ranks had searched the other locations “back and forth” and found nothing.
Mr. Khan explained that the four sites were identified by members of the recently-established organization InternetSAR.org.
This US-founded organization enlists the help of volunteers who log on over the Internet and download aerial photographs from the search areas.
The volunteers then scan the image looking for signs of the missing airplane.
Volunteers from InternetSAR.org had assisted in the search for missing US millionaire Steve Fossett, who perished on September 3, 2007 while flying his private plane over the Nevada Desert.
Khan said that other aviation experts are still examining LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) images which were recorded by a US plane that flew over the Mazaruni area last year.
The search had appeared to have ended in late December, when aerial photographs had appeared to show part of the Beechcraft plane protruding from trees in the Middle Mazaruni area.
However, this turned out to be a tree limb.
The almost two-month search had offered several leads in the quest to locate the missing plane.
Several other promising leads have yielded nothing.
The Beech King Air N87V, chartered from Dynamic Aviation Group Inc by Terraques Ltd, disappeared on November 1 last while conducting geographical surveys in the Mazaruni area.
Missing and presumed dead are US pilot James Barker, First Officer Chris Paris, also from the US, and Canadian technician Patrick Murphy.

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