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Mar 20, 2014 News
Investigators are making arrangements to have the single engine of the Piper Cherokee that went down in the Arau area, Region Seven, brought to the city as part of investigations into Tuesday’s plane crash.
Minister of Public Works Robeson Benn told this newspaper yesterday that investigators have returned to the city but are now placing efforts on having the engine brought to the city.
Minister Benn said that as procedure, the engine will have to be disassembled and examined.
In the meantime, Kaieteur News understands that the accident victims are still hospitalized .The pilot, Bernard Singh, 44, of Strathspey, East Coast Demerara; Troy Daniels, and Leon Bristol, 24, of Nabaclis, East Coast Demerara, are said to have suffered minor injuries. Another passenger, Ivor Williams, is said to be seriously injured.
Kaieteur News was able to speak with Bristol who complained of head injuries. He told the newspaper that he is experiencing serious pain in the head and back. Bristol explained that he was at the time employed with Singh who operated a private plane in the interior. The 24-year-old said that the last thing he remembered was entering the plane and waking up “after everything”.
He said that the plane was leaving Imbaimadai to go to Eteringbang when it went down.
However, Region Seven Chairman, Gordon Bradford told the newspaper during a visit to the community yesterday that residents are concerned over the number of local plane crashes occurring. Many of the residents would use air services to move around, and the issue is becoming very “worrisome,” he mentioned.
Around 11:14am on Tuesday, the Timehri Control Tower said, reports came in that the single engine light aircraft had gone down in mountainous region just after takeoff. Kaieteur News was told that a Guyana Defence Force helicopter went in and brought the injured from the crash site to the airstrip at Kaikan. The light aircraft is a United States registered plane operating here in a private capacity.
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