It was another day of searching for the Dynamic Aviation-owned Beech King Air aircraft that went missing more than a week ago but once again members of the search party came up empty-handed and will be back in the Cuyuni area today.
Head of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), Zulfikar Mohamed, yesterday said that there has been no further development after a full day of search from air and on ground.
The Dynamic Aviation aircraft, which have special equipment, and the army helicopter conducted air searches while there were persons on the ground searching.
And while a weak Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) signal was picked up on Saturday, Mohamed said that there was no further detection yesterday and the search and rescue parties were unable to pinpoint the signal.
He said that they will make some “educated assumptions” on the “lines the aircraft would have flown based on what they were doing” and they would insert ground teams to walk along the lines identified.
He admitted that it would be a long and hard task but it has to be done.
The occupants of the missing aircraft, the pilot Captain James Wesley Barker, First Officer Chris Paris, who are both US citizens, and Canadian Patrick Murphy, a Geophysics technician were conducting a geophysics survey.
