A domestic flight carrying 17 passengers and two pilots crashed in Suriname yesterday morning killing all on board.
The Antonov 28, owned by Blue Wing Airline which also operates a scheduled service out of Guyana crashed just 1800 meters away from landing at an airstrip in the gold mining town of Benzdorp in the interior of the country close to the French Guiana border.
Reuters in a report last evening on the incident said that concerns over the airline’s safety standards had prompted restrictions on the carrier flying into neighbouring French Guiana. However that report said those restrictions were lifted last year.
