Expanded search for plane fruitless

Nicholas Persaud

The search and rescue operation for the missing Air Services Limited (ASL) plane continued yesterday without success over an expanded area.

The twin-engine Britten Norman Islander with 28-year-old pilot Captain Nicolas `Nicky’ Persaud and 51-year-old cargo handler David Bisnauth onboard vanished without a trace on Sunday two minutes after it left the Mahdia airstrip. The plane was on a routine trip from Mahdia to Karisparu,