making flying significantly easier there.“For now

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Oxford Flight, the charter company which suffered two incidents in the space of five months, leaving their aircraft substantially damaged, has denied that its operating licences have been revoked by government.According to President of the company, Raj Persaud, who flew in from Connecticut, USA, to assess the extent of damage to his plane, which investigators said landed short of a runway in North West District, Oxford Flight is making arrangements to restart operations within five months.On January 20, the company which operates out of Ogle Airport, suffered another blow to its operations after a Cessna 206 landed short of the runway at Baramita, North West District, Region One. It suffered extensive damage.Last year, on August 21, passengers and a pilot in another Cessna 206 operated by Oxford Flight, escaped injury after the aircraft skidded off a runway at Ekereku, Region Seven, just before taking off.Yesterday, Persaud disclosed that in the case of the first incident, pilot error was clearly a factor since it was found that the plane had too much weight.“However, the pilot was not one of our own…he was a free-lance.”The problem was that another plane was on the way in when that incident had occurred.Regarding the Baramita crash of the Cessna 206, bearing registration number 8RGRT, the matter is still under investigations by the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority, the official said.Today, the company expects to fly in to the site to assess the damage and make arrangements to remove it.“It is possible that we would strip it, transport it overland and then ship it to our offices in US where we will examine the possibilities of rebuilding it.”While GCAA has not immediately suspended the operations, it has ordered new operational and management measures for the company.“So we are not closed. We will resume in about three to five months.”Persaud stressed that his entity is a well-grounded one with an established company in Oxford, Connecticut, which includes a flight school and charter operations.“We have been eight years in this business. I am aqualified pilot, inspector and engineer.’The official viewed the two incidents as totally unrelated and described it as “an unfortunate” coincidence.Oxford Flight started operations in March last year with five staffers on its payroll and serving mainly the mining community to Baramita, among other interior locations.According to Persaud, the flying conditions in the US and Guyana are somewhat different, with the US boasting more radars and equipment, making flying significantly easier there.“For now, I will be here more in Guyana and will actually be doing more flying.We will also be training out pilots. It is difficult finding pilots. We want to invest more in Guyana. Our challenge is not getting planes to Guyana but finding pilots.”