Wakenaam crash-landed plane had run out of fuel – probe finds

Investigations into an aircraft incident in which a light Cessna C150 aircraft crash landed in a rice field on the Essequibo River island of Wakenaam last November found that the plane had run out of fuel.

Last November, the US-registered aircraft bearing registration N65589, crash landed in a rice field at Maria’s Pleasure on the northern side of the island. The plane was on its way from neighbouring Trinidad and Tobago to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA). The two occupants, its owner and the pilot,