By Joseph Allen
Seven members of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), including two of the force’s most senior pilots, and several other senior officers are missing after an army helicopter went down in the Arau area in Region Seven, some 30 miles from the Venezuelan border.
According to the GDF, a search and rescue operation has been launched to locate the missing Bell 412 helicopter (8R-AYA), a relatively new aircraft, which was on a mission to visit troops on the western border.
