Local investigator in Washington for plane crash probe

An investigator from Guyana and another from Jamaica arrived in Washington yesterday to assist with interpreting data from the flight recorders of Caribbean Airlines Flight 523, which crash-landed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) on Saturday.

A preliminary report on the crash is expected within weeks but would not be released publicly, head of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) Zulfikar Mohamed said. Apart from this, an internal assessment has been prepared and submitted to the authorities here, Minister of Transport and Hydraulics, Robeson Benn had said.

Mohamed said yesterday that the