Six people were injured when a Fly Jamaica jet headed from Guyana to Canada made a crash-landing shortly after takeoff on Nov. 9.
According to Cheddi Jagan International Airport’s Facebook page, a Fly Jamaica aircraft carrying 120 passengers and eight crew crash-landed at the airport shortly after takeoff.
Fly Jamaica flight OJ256 took off from Cheddi Jagan International Airport headed for Toronto, Canada, at 2:10 a.m. on Nov.9.
According to Guyana’s Department of Public Information, the crew reported that the plane, a Boeing 757, was experiencing problems with its hydraulic system.
The crew requested permission to return to the airport 11 minutes into the flight.
Difficult Landing
The plane arrived back at the airport and its pilots performed a controlled crash landing 43 minutes after departing.
The pilots were unable to stop the plane on the runway and rolled off the end.
Passenger Invor Bedessee told CBC News that it seemed that the plane’s brakes were not functioning upon landing.
Airport personnel laid down spike strips which punctured the plane’s right-side tires which helped the plane to slow.
The plane came to rest in a sand berm at the end of the runway, just short of a small cliff.
تم النشر بواسطة Cheddi Jagan International Airport في الجمعة، ٩ نوفمبر ٢٠١٨
“We crashed into a big sand pile at an edge of a cliff. There’s a big drop about 30-40 feet on the other side,” Bedessee explained. “If we had 10 more feet, we would be down in the ditch.”
Min. Patterson Press Conference – Fly Jamaica
FLY JAMAICA FLIGHT MAKES EMERGENCY LANDING AT CJIA | Minister of Public Infrastructure, Hon. David Patterson early this morning provided an update on Fly Jamaica flight OJ256, which departed the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) for Toronto, Canada, at 02:10hrs on Friday morning, declared an emergency landing 43 minutes into the flight.The flight, which was estimated to arrive at its designation at 06:55hrs, immediately requested permission to return to the CJIA airport and subsequently landed at 02:53hrs.
تم النشر بواسطة Department of Public Information في الجمعة، ٩ نوفمبر ٢٠١٨
Guyana’s Department of Public Information reported that the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority and the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board will cooperate to investigate the incident.
تم النشر بواسطة Cheddi Jagan International Airport في الجمعة، ٩ نوفمبر ٢٠١٨
Minor Injuries
Six passengers suffered minor injuries from the force of the landing. No one suffered broken bones or other more severe injuries, the airport reported.
The injured passengers were transported to Diamond Diagnostic Hospital for treatment.
Passenger Bebe Ali called her daughter, Rabina Roopnarine, shortly after the crash landing. Roopnarine said he mother told her that the plane’s cockpit started to fill with smoke after the landing. Passengers tried to force their ways off the plane.
Ali was one of the six injured passengers. Her daughter reported that Ali hurt her neck and back sliding down the plane’s emergency exit chute.
“She just wants to come home,” Roopnarine told CBC.
Fly Jamaica said on its Facebook page that it was making arrangements to get its customers to Toronto on other flights.
