Latest update January 17th, 2025 6:30 AM
Doctor disappears at Kaieteur Falls
Police and officials of the Ogle Airport and Air Services Limited were up to late last night trying to ascertain the whereabouts of a passenger who disappeared after touring the Kaieteur Falls yesterday.
This newspaper was reliably informed that the Air Services Limited aircraft returned yesterday with one fewer person than it transported to the world famous waterfalls.
A source at the Ogle Airport told this newspaper last night that the aircraft left the city around midday with nine passengers for a tour of the Kaieteur Falls.
Among them was a female environmental doctor who was scheduled to leave for Miami today.
People on the flight said that the woman was seen crying into a phone while on the plane.
When the aircraft landed at the falls the woman appeared to brighten.
Air Services Limited transported two groups of tourists to the Kaieteur Falls. A spokesperson said that while the pilots were on the ground no other aircraft landed or left. This meant that the woman could not have left the area by mistake.
The woman was discovered missing when the tour guide was distributing chits to the passengers for snacks, at the Kaieteur airstrip before they boarded the aircraft back to Ogle.
One of her colleagues on the trip said that the missing woman was with the party when it was returning along the trail from the falls.
The missing doctor at center
She said that the woman lagged behind and when they urged her to walk up she said that she knew the place and that she had been there several times before.
She spoke of being with a British team that discovered some caves in the Kaieteur Falls area a few years ago.
Air Services Limited officials were a bit tightlipped but did confirm that the passenger was missing.
One official declined to say if the missing person is a Guyanese or a visitor from overseas.
Airline officials and the police have ruled out the possibility of the missing passenger from the Air Services Ltd. flight getting mixed up with another group that was also touring the falls yesterday.
In any case, they would have all landed by nightfall.
The Ministry of the Presidency said that the Department of Natural Resources has reported that a search operation is currently underway at the Kaieteur National Park (KNP), Region Eight to locate the female visitor to the park who has been reported missing.
The National Parks Commission Rangers, who facilitated the tour, were joined by other staffers in executing an immediate search operation.
“All relevant authorities including the Guyana Police Force (GPF), the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) and the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) were notified. An expanded search party will resume operations today.
Tours to the KNP have since been suspended.
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