External investigators to collect black box tomorrow

Two police officers stand near Caribbean Airlines’ US$38 million Boeing 737-800 plane as it lies across the road at Timehri after skidding off the main runway yesterday morning.

By Alva Solomon and Mark McGowan

Investigators from the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are expected in Guyana tomorrow to remove the voice data recordings and the black box to determine the cause of yesterday’s crash at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Chairman of Caribbean Airlines George Nicholas said.

The probe into the incident is being spearheaded by NTSB and the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), Nicholas said, at a press briefing yesterday.

He was joined at the press briefing by a team of high-level officials who flew into the country yesterday morning following the incident. These included the