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Jun 12, 2009 News
The six-month search for a missing US plane and its three-man crew is likely to focus on a new area southeast of Imbaimadai.
An official from Prometheus Resources Guyana Inc. said yesterday, that they received reports from persons who said that they heard a plane circling in the area.
The official said that the search team received the reports about six weeks ago from villagers after handing out fliers of the crew and missing plane.
Officials from the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) have assisted in having fliers distributed to several communities in the middle Mazaruni area where the plane is believed to have disappeared.
The Beech King Air N87V, chartered from Dynamic Aviation Group Inc by Terraques Ltd, vanished on November 1, while conducting geographical surveys in the Mazaruni area for the uranium company Prometheus Resources Guyana Inc.
Missing and presumed dead are 28-year-old U.S. pilot James Wesley Barker, First Officer Chris Paris, 23, also from the U.S., and 20-year-old Geophysical technician, Patrick Murphy, a Canadian citizen.
According to a report, the plane was scheduled to operate in the Chi-Chi/Imbaimadai area for four hours 30 minutes. They had fuel endurance for five hours 30 minutes.
The report also indicated that the crew failed to report their position to air traffic control as required.
Several futile attempts were subsequently made to contact the aircraft.
On November 17, after 200 hours and 28.3 million miles of aerial search, the official aerial and ground search was finally called off. However, a team organised by Prometheus has continued to scour the Middle Mazaruni jungle for the crash site.
They are being assisted by InternetSAR.org, a U.S.-based group that scans images of potential crash sites posted on the Internet to look for missing airplanes.
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