Search begins for plane missing in the Amazon

Two helicopters from a British Parachute Regiment were today helping search for a US-registered plane that disappeared in the Amazon jungles of Guyana after taking off to conduct aerial surveys for a Canadian mining company.

Two helicopters from a British Parachute Regiment were today helping search for a US-registered plane that disappeared in the Amazon jungles of Guyana after taking off to conduct aerial surveys for a Canadian mining company.

Three people were on board.

The aircraft was doing uranium survey work for Prometheus Resources Guyana Inc., a subsidiary of U308 Corporation of Toronto, Canada. It was flying over rugged terrain in western Guyana near Venezuela yesterday when it went missing.

The British helicopters were from a parachute regiment that were training in the area and joined the search-and-rescue operation today, said Zulfikar Mohamed, Guyana’s civil aviation director.

“We have about seven aircraft and helicopters covering a wide area,” he said.

“We have also asked the South American satellite system for help but that have not picked up any electronic signal as yet.”

The occupants of the plane were not identified.

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