By Antonio Dey
Tributes and condolences poured in yesterday for the five members of the Guyana Defence Force who perished in a helicopter crash on Wednesday.
Dead are veteran aviator, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Charles, Brigadier (Ret’d) Gary Beaton, Colonel Michael Shahoud, Lieutenant Colonel Sean Welcome and Staff Sergeant Jason Khan. The survivors are Lieutenant Andio Crawford and Corporal Dwayne Jackson.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, President Irfaan Ali led the tributes. In a press statement yesterday he said that it was with an “indescribable” heaviness in his heart and profound anguish that he shared the devastating news of the death of the five “bravest” sons from the Guyana Defence Force.
