GCAA says mandated to probe local aircraft accidents under int’l convention

Guyana, as a party to the Convention on International Civil Aviation, is mandated to have the national regulatory body for civil aviation carry investigations on aircraft accidents, the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has said.

In a statement to the media yesterday, the body said that to infer that while conducting an investigation the GCAA is investigating itself is an “obfuscation of the facts”.

In the wake of a series of aviation accidents critics have asked for an independent body to