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GDF search turns up empty

Dec 25, 2008 News

Last Tuesday’s collaboration between the Guyana Defence Force and the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) in the search for the missing Beechcraft 90 plane has again proved futile.

 
The GCAA reopened the Rescue Coordinating Centre at Timehri on Monday to launch another search for the missing plane following a request from the President and CEO of U308 Corp, Richard Spencer.
Spencer’s request of the CAA was based on a photograph posted on InternetSAR’s Website which showed a new anomaly in aerial photos of the suspected crash site which they had previously analyzed.
Operations manager of the Guyana Defence Force Air Corps, Major Michael Charles, indicated that the search was launched using one of the Army’s Bell 206 helicopters.
The search was conducted within the area of high probability based on GPS coordinates obtained from the aerial photographs.
The hour-long search concentrated in an area with a four square mile radius of the central location and failed to reveal or confirm anything new or hopeful.
Charles and his crew took several aerial shots of the exact location and according to his preliminary yet professional evaluation, the anomaly which triggered this latest search appears to be the deadened stump of a giant tree which has branches extending from it. This might have been mistaken for the tail fin of the missing aircraft.
He said that the photos he took are being made available to relevant experts for their considered opinions.
The missing US registered aircraft was chartered from Dynamic Aviation Inc by Terraquest Ltd to conduct geophysical surveys on behalf of Prometheus Resources (Guyana) Inc, a subsidiary of the Toronto-based U3O8 Corporation.
Americans James Wesley Barker, 28, and Chris Paris, 23, the Captain and First Officer, respectively, along with Canadian Patrick Murphy, a geophysics technician, were on board the plane which went missing on November 2.

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