Date: 11/2/2008
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — A U.S.-registered plane was missing in the Amazon jungles of Guyana after taking off to conduct aerial surveys for a Canadian mining company, aviation officials said Sunday. Three people were on board.
The aircraft was doing uranium survey work for Prometheus Resources Guyana Inc., a subsidiary of U308 Corporation of Toronto, Canada. It was flying over rugged terrain in western Guyana near Venezuela on Saturday when it went missing.
Two helicopters from a British parachute regiment that were training in the area joined the search-and-rescue operation Sunday, said Zulfikar Mohamed, Guyana’s civil aviation director.
“We have about seven aircraft and helicopters covering a wide area,” he said. “We have also asked the South American satellite system for help but that have not picked up any electronic signal as yet.”
The occupants of the plane were not identified.
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.