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Guyana airport review its security after planes flown away
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyanese authorities say Cessna six-seater aircrafts apparently have been removed from a municipal airport and flown out of the country without authorization.
A spokesman for the Eugene F. Correia Airport says the two planes were removed from their parking slots around 4 a.m. Saturday. Spokesman Christopher Nascimento said Sunday that the airport was unaware there had been a court order prohibiting owner Oxford Aviation company from flying them out of Guyana.
Nascimento says the planes were later detected in Anguilla, in the northern Caribbean, after they were flown through Trinidad airspace undetected by radar, then in Grenada. He added that one of the pilots owns Oxford Aviation.
He said airport managers were meeting in emergency sessions on Sunday to discuss ways to prevent such an incident from occurring again.
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