Kenneth Somerset became the hero to a family last Saturday, when he helped a little boy escape from the Caribbean Airlines plane that crash landed at the Cheddi International Airport, Timehri.
Somerset, who was a passenger on the ill-fated plane, recounted to Stabroek News that the child’s grandmother jumped, then he and then the child. He believed the boy was about six years old. “It would have been disastrous if he had jumped,” he said, while noting that many passengers suffered injuries after jumping from the wrecked plane.
According to Somerset, the child’s grandmother
