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Transport Minister denies instruments were stolen from crashed aircraft

May 17, 2013 News

 

Minister of Transport Robeson Benn has denied that any instruments could have been stolen from the American-registered aircraft which crashed into a Sparendaam, East Coast Demerara house over a month ago.
The two pilots aboard the plane were killed, and according to Benn, the aircraft and all its parts were completely destroyed by fire.
“All the equipment on board the plane, and the aircraft itself, were completely destroyed by fire,” Benn said yesterday.
The Minister said he was present at the site shortly after the crash and he saw even aluminum being consumed by the fire.
Benn’s comments come in light of claims that well protected GPS and other sensitive equipment may have been saved, but mysteriously disappeared from the storage of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA).
He said that the complete wreckage of the plane, and whatever instrumentation, including remnants of the propeller, tail and wings, are being stored by the GCAA and could be examined by any person under supervision of the Authority  if there is a need to verify what was there and what was discovered.
He said that extensive pictures of the crash site are also “out there”.
“I want to reject any suggestion that things have been stolen,” Benn stated.
On April 13, the twin-engine Piper Aztec, with registration N27-FT, crashed into Florence Tyndall’s house and also burnt a section of her neighbour Michelle Belle’s house. Tyndall escaped unharmed, but the owner and pilot of the aircraft, Pierre Angiel and his co-pilot Canadian Scientist Nick Dmitriev perished.
John Vogel, Consultant of Digital World Mapping and an acquaintance of the late Dmitriev, during an interview with this publication on Wednesday, said that a representative of the company in Guyana had reported the aforementioned valuable missing equipment to the regulatory body.
According to Vogel, it is impossible for this piece of equipment to completely melt during the explosion since it is well protected by an aluminum casing.
According to Paula Mc Adam, GCAA’s Director of Aviation Safety Regulation, who led the technical team that cleared the crash site, there was no evidence of such equipment among the rubble.  She concluded that the equipment and its casing must have melted in the crash. She advised that the company take its complaint to the Guyana Police Force for an investigation of that nature.

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