The Guyana Civ­il Avi­a­tion Au­thor­i­ty (GCAA) is in­ves­ti­gat­ing whether a po­ten­tial­ly ma­jor in­ci­dent in­volv­ing a Trinidad-based Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) 737 MAX 8 pas­sen­ger jet 737 MAX 8 was taxi­ing and a do­mes­tic air­line was avert­ed Mon­day night at the Ched­di Ja­gan In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port (CJIA) as a re­sult of an al­leged run­way in­cur­sion.

GCAA Di­rec­tor-Gen­er­al, re­tired Lt. Col. Eg­bert Field, said that in keep­ing with pro­ce­dures, the pi­lots of the Ro­raima Air­ways-owned Brit­ten Nor­man Is­lander air­craft have since been ground­ed by the avi­a­tion reg­u­la­tor pend­ing the out­come of an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the “run­way in­cur­sion”.

“One air­craft was taxi­ing and the oth­er was about to land. It is good that one air­craft stopped well short of the oth­er air­craft while it was on the run­way,” Field said the Guyana-based De­mer­ara Waves On­line News.

The chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of Ro­raima Air­ways, Ger­ry Gou­veia, de­clined to com­ment be­cause the mat­ter was un­der in­ves­ti­ga­tion, “oth­er than to say my pi­lots con­duct­ed a nor­mal and safe ap­proach to land at CJIA fol­low­ing ATC (Air Traf­fic Con­trol) in­struc­tion.”

The GCAA Di­rec­tor-Gen­er­al said a probe would in­clude ob­tain­ing the record­ings from the Air Traf­fic Con­trol tow­er and pos­si­bly high-res­o­lu­tion video record­ings of the in­ci­dent from cam­eras atop the tow­er.

“They (in­ves­ti­ga­tors) would have to put to­geth­er the time­line and check on the chain of events and come up with rec­om­men­da­tions,” he said.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana, Apr 2, CMC –

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