A Boeing jetliner carrying 126 people crash-landed at the airport in Guyana’s capital Georgetown on Friday, injuring six people, the transport minister said.
The Fly Jamaica Airways plane was bound for Toronto when it suffered a hydraulic problem shortly after takeoff and returned to the airport, crashing and skidding off the runway, Transportation Minister David Patterson said.
He said the injuries were not life-threatening and the wounded were taken to a hospital near the airport in this country bordering Venezuela to the east.
“They are all stable and are being looked at. There were no reports of broken bones,” Patterson told a news briefing at the airport. The 118 passengers on board the Boeing 757-200 included 82 Canadians.