The Guyana Daily Brief — Saturday, April 11, 2026
April 11, 2026 • 4 min readGood morning from Georgetown. Here’s what you missed while you were sleeping off Easter.
PLANE DOWN IN REGION 8 — PILOT STILL MISSING
An Air Services Limited Cessna 208 went down Friday morning somewhere between Mahdia and Imbaimadai in dense, mountainous jungle. The pilot — Nicaraguan national Captain Ryder Castello, 20 years of experience, employed with ASL for ten of them — departed at 8:10 a.m. and was due at 8:40. He never called in. The crash site has been located on the side of a mountain, the hard part is getting to it. The GDF dispatched special forces and medical personnel via Bell helicopter, but the terrain requires climbing one mountain and descending the other side. Weather at the time: heavy rainfall, reduced visibility. Everybody is racing against the clock.
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