‘I’m still shaking:’ Toronto man recounts plane’s emergency landing in Guyana
A mechanically faulty Toronto-bound plane’s destructive emergency landing and subsequent crash through a fence at Guyana’s main international airport left its passengers, including dozens of Canadians, largely uninjured but still badly shaken, one of those on board said Friday.
Invor Bedessee was among 82 Canadians on Fly Jamaica flight OJ256, which experienced a hydraulics failure moments after departing from Georgetown, Guyana.
While grateful to have escaped injury, Bedessee said he was still processing the close call hours later.
“I’m still shaking, I’m so shocked,” the Toronto man said from a Georgetown hotel. “It’s just a shock through my body … I tried to sleep, but I couldn’t do it. It’s not possible.”