8R-GGU: Crashed in the jungle at night with Capt. Gerry Gouveia at the controls

8R-GGU

Date: xx SEP 1994
Type: Britten-Norman BN-2A-27 Islander
Operator: Kayman Sankar Aviation
Registration: 8R-GGU
MSN: 251
First flight: *****
Crew: Fatalities 0 / Occupants: 1
Passengers: Fatalities 0 / Occupants 0:
Total Fatalities: 0 / Occupants:1
Airplane damage: Written off
Location: ? (Guyana)
Phase: Decent
Nature: Unknown
Departure Airport: OMI
Destination Airport: OGL

Narrative: Aircraft crashed into trees at night, written off.

This aircraft crashed in the jungle at night with Capt. Gerry Gouveia at the controls. Amazingly Gouveia escaped without serious injury.
I was Involved in the SAR for this Aircraft and Found the location of the ELT signal in the Jungle the night it disappeared with an Islander. I Got a team of GDF Soldiers from Timehri and Myself and Capt Frankie Veira walked thru the Jungle at night to the Crash site..Luckily the pilot Capt Gerry Gouveia was alive but a bit bloodied and shaken. We cleared a helipad and airlifted him by helicopter..the operation was completed in one day.

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