The incident involving the Trans Guyana Airways (TGA) plane at the Kurupung airstrip in May was not a “hard landing” but a “short landing,” Minister of Public Works Robeson Benn says.
“In this particular instance it was not a “hard landing” but a “short landing” by the pilot of the aircraft,” Benn said in a written response to a question posed by APNU parliamentarian Dr. Karen Cummings in the National Assembly recently. According to Benn, the contributory factors were wind shear and downdraught.
At the time, in a statement on the May 16 incident,
