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Aviation deaths, mishaps in 2004
Guyana has experienced over six aviation mishaps this year involving both civilian and military aircraft.
*On January 18, 2014, Canadian pilot Blake Slater and his cargo handler Dwayne Jacobs disappeared in densely forested, hilly Mazaruni, Region Seven area, when the Trans Guyana Airways’ 700 Cessna Caravan 8R-GHS they were travelling in, went down.
This Ogle Airport crash was the first for 2014
Their bodies were recovered some three days later.
*Prior to that, on January 11, a pregnant woman and the pilot of a single engine Cessna 206 small aircraft were among four persons who narrowly escaped death following a mid-morning plane crash at the Ogle International Airport. Those on board had to be dispatched to various hospitals after the Fenix Airways Inc. owned aircraft; registration 8RMML which was destined for Kato in Region Eight veered off the airstrip and crashed belly up a few yards away from the runway fence. The pilot was accused of using his cell phone during the take off process but this was never confirmed.
*On March 18, a rescue team had to be dispatched to the Region Seven community of Arau following another accident involving a single engine light aircraft which crashed shortly after take off from the area’s airstrip. The United States-registered civil utility Piper Cherokee N87619, was carrying at least four people when it went down. It was intended to shuttle goods between two interior communities and aviation authorities were at the time focusing on engine problems as a possible cause of the crash.
*The hard-landing of a Trans-Guyana Britten Norman Islander aircraft caused an investigation by the civil aviation authority on May 17, when the plane suffered damage to its left landing gear during a landing at the Kurupung Airstrip, Region Seven. Five persons were onboard the plane, but no injuries were sustained.
From left: Dwayne Jacob and Canadian- born Blake Slater died in the country’s second plane crash for 2014
*On June 4, an incident occurred in Paramakatoi, Region Eight where an Air Services Limited (ASL) aircraft crashed into a fence at that airstrip. It was reported that weather conditions contributed to the incident.
*On September 21, a recently arrived Trislander from Golden Arrows Airways suffered some degree of damage as the aircraft came in for a difficult landing at Kaieteur Falls. The twin-engine aircraft was transporting 16 passengers to one of the country’s tourist destinations when it was damaged and therefore unable to immediately make the return flight to the Ogle International Airport (OIA).
*Four persons walked away unharmed on September 24, when the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) aircraft which they were travelling in crash landed at Camp Jaguar, in the New River Triangle location where the country’s defence force has a base. The occupants of the GDF Cessna 206 were heading to the GDF location when the plane ran off the airstrip following touchdown.
The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) and the Head of the Transport Ministry Robeson Benn have expressed continuously, the need to make the country’s airspace safer. Several measures are being put in place to improve the situation, the Ministry said, with mechanisms such as the ADS-B tracking system which improves sky traffic being implemented.
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