The Ministry of Public Works and the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) will partner up to boost safety measures relating to domestic air travel. With estimations of over 50,000 air travel activities occurring annually, and some 130 airplane movements daily, the Ogle International Airport has easily become the nation’s busiest aerodrome. However, the increased incidences of aviation accidents and incidents have frightened aviation authorities who are now bent on having a firmer grip on the adherence of safety regulations.Both GCCA head Zulficar Mohamed and Minister Robeson Benn registered concerns regarding the safety of flying domestically and has noted their intent to increase surveillance and random checks at the nation’s second largest aerodrome.Mohamed told media workers during a press conference that inspectors from the agency’s Air Safety Regulatory Directorate will also be conducting frequent operations at interior landing strips. The agencies said they have been prompted to review safety mechanisms and the adherence of these mechanisms.Minister Benn said that, “The Ministry has been recently quite concerned over a number of aircraft incidents. One week before this (Saturday’s) crash we had an aircraft flipping at Ogle aerodrome.” That incident, Benn said is also being investigated, “and that one (accident) may be related to weights on the aircraft at take off.”Benn continued that, “we have been discussing additional measures, additional oversight in respect to heightening the level of surveillance in respect to aircraft operations. Domestic flights particularly from the Ogle Aerodrome are of a very high number.”“Comparatively and statistically speaking we have much, much more activity,Cheap NFL Jerseys, and the entire system has been responding to this increase in the level of activity and responding to the amount of effort needed to manage the overall system.” Benn said that obviously there are other aspects that aviation authorities will have to look into, arising out of last week’s accident and some prior to that.Minister Benn continued that,NFL Jerseys China, “one of the issues arising out of some recent incidents is whether the issue relating to the loading of planes, their practices and prescribed standards are being followed.” He said shuttle operations are mostly in the interior and not the coast so safety officials will be requiring “adhoc inspections in the operational areas and also at Ogle itself.” While these inspections are done from time to time,Wholesale NFL Jerseys Online, Benn said that as a routine measure now,Cheap NFL Jerseys, “a higher frequency of these inspections will be done both on the coast and Ogle.”Weight onboard aircraft,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, Benn said, is becoming a grave concern for safety officers at the operational level and these concerns are also known to flight operators out of Ogle. “The operators are aware of our concerns and we will be firmly dealing with a number of those concerns. From time to time,Wholesale Jerseys From China, the various agencies have been engaged with the GCAA with respect to issues that would have been noted from the Ogle Tower or from the Timehri Tower and also with respect to mishaps or deviation from the safety norms in the interior.”The Minister noted however that several other safety issues will be looked at by the agency, including the communication and the usage of Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELT) signal which is used to transmit distress signals via satellite.The Minister has however reassured domestic flight users that the Ministry is doing all in its power to ensure safety in the sky and in some cases on the ground. He said, “I want to reassure the general public and all Guyanese particularly, that we would want to mitigate as much as possible and we would work to ensure that we do not have recurrences of this time.”