A renewed search will soon be launched for the Beech King Air N87V survey aircraft that went missing in the jungles of Guyana last November, to be headed by a team from the United States.

This was revealed to the Guyana Chronicle ,via email, by Vice President, Investor Relations, U3O8 Corp – a Canada-based uranium exploration company – Nancy Chan-Palmateer, who stated that the renewed search has been called due to analysis of photographs taken during aerial surveys last year.

In June last this newspaper had learnt from the company that a number of members from the U.S. search and rescue network, who are experienced in search and rescue missions, had volunteered to review all the data that had been gathered from previous air and ground efforts.

The team had undertaken the task so as to provide their perspective and recommendations on a possible location for the missing plane.

Chan-Palmateer said that another ground search is being planned for later this month to be led by these volunteers due to their findings. The details of the search are however still being finalised.

The aircraft and its three man crew, Americans Captain James Wesley Barker, 28; First Officer Chris Paris, 23; and Canadian Patrick Murphy, a Geophysics Technician disappeared on November 1, 2008, while flying over the mountainous Mazaruni area.

The two other companies involved in the exploration activities are Dynamic Aviation and Terraquest Limited.

The Toronto-based U3O8 Corp, through one of its subsidiaries, Prometheus Resources Incorporated, is continuing with its exploration for uranium deposits in Guyana.

The company is conducting its exploration near Chi-Chi Falls and Imbaimadai here, and is continuing because of a one-year extension granted by the Government last September to the company.