About 200 New York-bound passengers were Saturday suffering a nine-hour delay at Guyana’s Cheddi Jagan International Airport after a Rapid Loader damaged the fuselage of an Ezjet aircraft.
“It was a ground handling accident in which a loader, during the course of cleaning the plane, damaged the plane. It’s a minor damage but it prevented the plane from flying,” Ezjet’s spokesman, Kit Nascimento told Demerara Waves Online News (www.demwaves.com).
DemWaves understands that the Rapid Loader is owned by New Timehri Handling Services.
Nascimento said Ezjet has arranged for another aircraft to arrive here to take the 201 stranded passengers to the John F. Kennedy International Airport. Departure time is expected to be around midnight.
The now damaged aircraft should have left Guyana at 3 PM Saturday.
An investigation has been launched into the incident.
Nascimento said the delay and backlog would not affect Monday’s launch of its inaugural flight to and from Canada.
