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Seven days after Arau plane crash…Two passengers remain hospitalized
Two broken legs, injury to the neck and a dislocated hip are not “minor injuries,” said one of the injured passengers in the Arau, Region Seven plane crash, Troy Daniels, who could be bed-ridden for months.
Injured: Troy Daniels
Daniels from his hospital bed said that the injuries he sustained are nowhere next to minor. He is a father of three from Bachelor’s Adventure, East Coast Demerara.
“I read in the newspapers that I sustained minor injuries. Look at me; my legs are broken, I have a dislocated hip and my neck can hardly move. The doctors are yet to examine my neck,” the miner said.
Daniels cannot move as he likes, his feet are strapped to the bed with steel inserted in both legs and his hip. “I am in pain all the time.”
Recalling what happened two Tuesdays ago, Daniels said that in less than two minutes after the plane took off from the Arau Airstrip, the engine was making strange noises and another miner, Ivor Williams, instructed the pilot, Bernard Singh to turn back.
Daniels, Williams and another worker, Leon Bristol, 24, worked for Bernard who has a dredge in the interior.
The men were all heading to Ekereku, another village in Region Seven, to board another plane that would transport them to Georgetown when the plane went down around 11:14 hrs two Tuesdays ago.
“I was in and out of consciousness. When the plane crash on the mountain top, I lost consciousness and when I regained consciousness, I was in pain and people were screaming,” the father of three recalled.
Williams is also hospitalized at the GPHC, nursing a broken left leg. He related the same story as his colleague. “The plane took off from the Arau Airstrip and crashed at Arau mountain top.”
“As soon as he took off, the engine was cutting off and coming on and I told him to turn back but he crashed before he could have turned back,” Williams stressed. The pilot and Bristol were both treated at the GPHC and sent away.
Kaieteur News understands that investigators from the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) will be focusing on the engine of the United States-registered civil utility Piper Cherokee N87619 which is owned and operated by Singh.
Injured: Ivor Williams
Early last January, a Cessna 206 flipped over at the Ogle Airport, resulting in the pilot and three passengers sustaining injuries. A Cessna Caravan crashed later that month in the densely forested Mazaruni location, claiming the lives of Canada-born pilot, Blake Slater, and local cargo loader, Dwayne Jacobs.
The GCAA is yet to conclude either of those investigations.
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