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Not enough tail-wind may have caused Cessna crash

Aug 27, 2010 News

A preliminary report into last week’s accident which left a Cessna 206 badly damaged has suggested that there was not enough tailwind to generate speed for a takeoff.
According to Minister of Public Works and Transport, Robeson Benn, the damaged aircraft, being operated by Oxford Aviations from the Ogle International Airport, is still at the airstrip at Ekereku “Bottom” airstrip, Region Seven.
Additionally, there have been claims that a windsock (a conical textile tube designed to indicate wind direction and relative wind speed) may have been wrapped around a pole at the time of the attempted takeoff, but the Minister pointed out that pilots have other means of determining wind direction and speed, crucial factors that have to be taken into account for a takeoff.
Aviation officials are still investigating the matter before tendering a final report, Benn disclosed.
On Friday, the aircraft reportedly left Ogle with officials of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission and cargo, landing shortly after 09:00 hrs. It was attempting to take off when the pilot was forced to abort. The aircraft reportedly ran off the runway suffering damage as a result. No one was seriously hurt.
Investigators of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority had flown in the same day to conduct a probe.
A miner familiar with the area said that the airstrip, operated by government, is a tricky one to land or take-off from because of “some slopes”.
“I know many planes that had difficulties there.”

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