Two weeks on…No sighting of ASL plane

Yesterday marked two weeks since the Air Services Limited (ASL) Britten-Norman Islander went missing but arduous searches have still so far yielded no sighting of the plane or two-man crew.

ASL General Manager Annette Arjoon-Martins last evening said that searches for the day were “not definitive” and that she will give a more detailed update this morning when ground crews return to the centre.

On December 28th last, piloted by twenty-eight-year-old Captain Nicholas Persaud and with 51-year-old David Bisnauth onboard, the aircraft lost communication with air traffic controllers about two minutes after its takeoff from Mahdia to Karisparu, both in Region Eight. It was around 11:45am in the morning and searches have