An Air Services aircraft ferrying Caricom delegates, who were in Guyana for the Heads of Government Conference, from Kaieteur Falls to Ogle made an emergency landing on Saturday afternoon at the Baganara Island airstrip after one of the aircraft’s engines failed.
When contacted for a comment yesterday afternoon, Director General of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) Zulficar Mohammed confirmed that the Britten Norman Islander, twin engine aircraft which was en-route to Ogle from Kaieteur made an emergency landing at Baganara noting that the aircraft had a problem with one engine.
According to a source the aircraft, registered as 8R-GHE, departed Ogle around 11 am on Saturday for Kaieteur Falls and landed there around lunchtime. After spending a few hours on the ground at Kaieteur, the craft departed around 3:15 for Ogle with 10 persons on board including the pilot but developed a problem with one of its engines which eventually lost power.
The source said the pilot decided to make an emergency landing at Baganara Island since the other operable engine began to give trouble.
Another aircraft was dispatched to transport the Caricom delegates to Ogle while a team of engineers was also sent in to Baganara along with GCAA officials to investigate the incident.
Stabroek News understands that the aircraft travelled back to Ogle yesterday on one engine.
Stabroek News was reliably informed that there was another incident around 2 pm yesterday which could have resulted in catastrophic consequences had the pilot of a LIAT Dash 8 aircraft, which was inbound to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri from Barbados, not taken evasive action to avoid colliding with a Learjet which had departed from CJIA minutes earlier. The GCAA director told this newspaper yesterday that he had to confirm whether the incident occurred.
According to reports, the Learjet came within hundreds of feet of the LIAT aircraft, resulting in that aircraft’s pilot making a radical turn to avoid a collision.
It was unclear whether that incident was as a result of pilot error or an Air Traffic Services error.
This newspaper understands that the Jamaican Prime Minister, Bruce Golding was expected to travel on the Learjet to his country but was reportedly in Georgetown at the time of the incident.
On Thursday another aircraft, a Britten Norman Islander, twin engine craft belonging to Roraima Airways overran the runway at Fairview with six passengers on board along with the pilot.
No one was injured in that incident which is currently being investigated by the GCAA.
wow, safe landing,
Air traffic safety in Guyana now is becoming a bit questionable. It is only when something goes wrong that the people are going to get serious. The relevant authorities first have to start to putting qualified personnels to run the various departments and offer the relevant services instead of having an haphazard approach to things.
how about the Airfrance accident? and other accident happened somewhere in russia? don’t single out the issue that it is because in guyana. it’s a universal problem of human’s negligence and stubborness, you is the example; not using your mind properly.
This is what happen when the only qualification for a job is a ppp membership card.
T.Singh,
I guess all those recent crahses in the USA the pilots and controllers had PPP cards.
Think before u show everybody how fllosih u r
I have said it over and over, it is not if but when its only a matter of time.Seperation of traffic is the main function of ATC and they are not doing a good job.Invest in radar coverage and another VOR.
Landing in Guyana by boat,not me on a plane in Guyana’s airspace.
The mechanical problems I could understand, but the near collision is another issue.
Thank God no one was harmed.
If the only operable engine was also giving trouble why risk the pilot life by flying it back to ogle? These guys take a lot of risk. The islander is a reliable aircraft so I’ll have to say maintenance might be the problem.
The chain of command needs to be looked at because when the director doesn’t know of incidents or near incidents at SYCJ, it seems as though important information isn’t being relayed to the proper authorities.
The Authorites in Guyana only wake up like Rip Van Winkle when a major catastrophe happens.Remember the Floods of 2005???Then flooding every year after that???
Then they make all kinds of excuses for their incompetence. Time passes nothing happens and they go back to sleep…..Guyanese have become accustomed to negligence,incompetence,dunkedam leaders etc etc.
THIS IS JUST A PRACTISE! TOO MUCH ACCIDENT ON THE ROAD SO THEY ARE ABOUT TO TAKE THEM IN THE AIR…MARK MY WORDS
I agree with you Tsingh and pilot230 it is just a matter of time the government is taking out all the trained and qualified persons and replacing them with those that has a PPP card that is one of the resons that they are lowering the standerds of being a ATCO ,the funcion of an ATCO is to give vertical and horizontal seperation,we need proper ILS,VOR not only at the international air port but the minimum VOR for interior air dromes,is very strange that the Roraima boss and his close coligues who say that ther are playing such a great part in Guyana aveation are not pushing the air safty