Director General of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), retired Lt. Col. Egbert Field yesterday said that the Roraima Airways pilot who died in a crash in July had completed 19 shuttle flights on the day of the fatal accident, which company Chief Executive Officer Captain Gerry Gouveia is refuting.
At a press conference yesterday, Field said that Captain Collin Martin, who was killed in the July 25 accident, had carried out 19 shuttle flights within hours between Eteringbang and Ekereku in Region Seven. It was on his last shuttle flight that Martin’s plane had crashed while approaching the Eteringbang airstrip.
Field explained that such a number of shuttle flights being flown by a single pilot in one day is an issue and raises concern about the monitoring and regulation of air shuttle operations, which are used to transport goods and fuel to the interior regions.
However, in an invited comment, Gouveia said that
