Date: 2/11/2009
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Strong winds and currents are forcing authorities to hold off a search for five people missing in a small plane crash off Puerto Rico’s coast.
The island’s emergency management director said Tuesday that the search will resume as soon as weather conditions permit. Heriberto Sauri has said that sharks in the area also have become an obstacle.
The remains of one man have been found.
The plane took off from the Dominican Republic and was headed to Puerto Rico with a pilot and five passengers when it crashed near the island’s northwest coast on Sunday.
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GUYANA: Officials suspend search for missing US survey plane with 3 aboard
Date: 11/18/2008
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana has suspended its search for a U.S.-registered plane with three people aboard that disappeared over dense Amazonian jungle two weeks ago.
Transportation Minister Robeson Benn says government teams have unsuccessfully scoured mountainous forests near the Venezuelan border to find the Beechcraft King Air plane that was conducting aerial surveys for a Canadian mining company.
American pilots James Barker and Chris Paris and Canadian technician Patrick Murphy were doing uranium survey work for Prometheus Resources Guyana Inc., a subsidiary of U308 Corporation of Toronto, Canada, when the plane went missing.
Benn said Monday that the plane’s owners planned to continue limited ground searches.
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana has suspended its search for a U.S.-registered plane with three people aboard that disappeared over dense Amazonian jungle two weeks ago.
Transportation Minister Robeson Benn says government teams have unsuccessfully scoured mountainous forests near the Venezuelan border to find the Beechcraft King Air plane that was conducting aerial surveys for a Canadian mining company.
American pilots James Barker and Chris Paris and Canadian technician Patrick Murphy were doing uranium survey work for Prometheus Resources Guyana Inc., a subsidiary of U308 Corporation of Toronto, Canada, when the plane went missing.
Benn said Monday that the plane’s owners planned to continue limited ground searches.
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.
