SEVEN days after the Sparendaam aircraft accident which left Mrs. Florence Tyndall homeless, along with the deaths of American pilot Pierre Angiel and Canadian survey technician Nick Dmitriev, works have not yet commenced on the rebuilding of the damaged property.

The pilot was flying a Piper Aztec plane which was here on a technical survey mission for the Amaila Falls hydro power access road.
On Sunday this newspaper visited the scene at lot 78, Sparendaam Housing Scheme and tried to make contact with Mrs. Tyndall but neighbours said that she had not been around the area since last Wednesday.
Efforts to contact officials from the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) yesterday were futile and Minister of Public Works Mr. Robeson Benn was also unavailable to comment on the rebuilding of the home of Mrs. Tyndall.
Last Saturday afternoon at around 15:00 hrs the United States-registered N27FT Piper Aztec aircraft left the Ogle Regional Airport for the project area with six hours of fuel but developed engine failure and crashed into the home of Mrs. Tyndall who was then in conversation with her next door neighbour Mrs. Desiree Adams.  The plane burst into flames destroying Tyndall’s home and damaging the next door cottage.
The Guyana Fire Service, aviation officials, police and other security services and government department officials quickly responded and subsequently the bodies of the two men who were in the aircraft were retrieved.
This was the first time in the 100 years of aviation in Guyana that an aircraft had crashed in a rural area.