Ivor Williams, 32, one of the passengers of the plane that crashed in Arau on Tuesday morning, is still in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).
Williams had been taken to the hospital after being airlifted from the crash site in Region 7 along with Leon Bristol, Troy Daniels, and the pilot of the plane Bernard Singh.
According to the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), Singh, the owner of several mining camps, had crashed around 11.14 am during take-off from the Arau Airstrip. He had been heading to another location in the region with his three employees Williams, Bristol, and Daniels.
A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) helicopter was able to locate the crash site almost instantaneously after a private operator who had been flying in the vicinity managed to pinpoint the site’s location using Global Positioning System (GPS) software.
Army medical personnel were flown in on a Britten Norman Islander from Ogle to Kaikan to bring out the injured men and had also tended to the injured men on their arrival at the GPH.
The GCAA said that its investigators will remain at the crash site to comb through the wreckage for possible clues to why the plane crashed.
