Plane crashes during attempted take-off from Wakenaam

Zulficar Mohamed

A light plane crashed as it tried to take off from Wakenaam yesterday afternoon, almost two years after it crash landed on the island en route from Trinidad to Timehri.

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) will be sending a team to Wakenaam Island today to investigate the circumstances surrounding yesterday’s crash of the US-registered aircraft, which had been repaired following the previous crash on the island, Director General of the GCAA Zulficar Mohamed told Stabroek News yesterday.

The small of the plane, a light Cessna C150 aircraft, was injured in the