Futility persists in search for plane

It was another fruitless day yesterday for those out in the jungle searching for the missing Dynamic Aviation-owned Beech King Air which has been missing for more than a week.

Zulfikar Mohamed, the director of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), yesterday said that the teams went out and searched but there was no luck. He said one of the Dynamic Aviation owned aircraft, which has been doing aerial searches, was expected to go back to the area last evening but because of bad weather was unable to fly. The ground team continued its efforts yesterday and will be back out today.

On Sunday, a weak Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) signal was picked up but there has not been any further detection since.

When the aircraft went missing, Captain James Wesley Barker, First Officer Chris Paris (both US citizens) and Canadian Patrick Murphy were its occupants. The trio was at that time conducting a geophysics survey.

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