Plane with 16 narrowly misses cow at Port Kaituma strip

A Trans Guyana Airways Cessna Caravan narrowly escaped a collision with a cow while landing at the Port Kaituma airstrip yesterday morning, prompting  local aircraft operators to cease flights into the area indefinitely.

Reports are that around 8:05 am yesterday, the aircraft was in the process of landing at the aerodrome in the Region One community when the incident occurred.
Director General of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), Zulficar Mohammed told this newspaper yesterday that he was not aware