It was another fruitless day for those searching for the missing Dynamic Aviation-owned Beech King Air aircraft and its three occupants even after a weak Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) signal was detected on Saturday.
Head of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), Zulfikar Mohammed, yesterday confirmed that the ELT signal was picked up but he said it now means that the search and rescue party will have to narrow it down to a specific location.
Mohammed said that because the area is so big the receiving of the weak signal really means nothing unless there is a specific location. He said the more precisely they can “pinpoint the location the better result they would get.” He suggested that it has to be narrowed down to about 100 square miles before it can really mean something.
The Head of the GCAA said that the ground search continued aided by the Dynamic Aviation plane and the helicopter which was manned by the Special Forces. “A lot happened but it is just that there was no success. They would have to continue searching tomorrow (today),” he said. The plane went missing two Saturdays ago
Its occupants were conducting a geophysics survey. Those on board were the pilot Captain James Wesley Barker, First Officer Chris Paris, who are both US citizens, and Canadian Patrick Murphy, a Geophysics technician.