Walker’s Cay Witnesses Plane Crash

By Stephanie Humblestone
On the 8th of May a five-seater
Majors Airline Piper Aztec piloted by
Capt. Eddie Thomas of Freeport crash
landed about two hundred yards north

west of the Walker’s Cay Airport.
Five passengers on board the aircraft
survived the crash; they were Carolyn

Abandoned Boat
Found Drifting

On the 8th of May a white unmanned
28 foot sail boat named Gapayon, with
only a cat on board, was spotted by
Havame Cooper of Fox Town. The
vessel was located three miles south of
Cooper Rock, which lies 20 miles south
west of Fox Town.

The vessel, owned by Paul Norton of
Newport, Oregon, had its engines
running and in gear and was towing a
dinghy. Mr. Cooper boarded the boat,
turned off the engine and threw an
anchor overboard.

Mr. Norton has not been found.
According to Officer Cox from Cooper’s
Town Police Station, “’The boat is still
on the banks and its owner is assumed
lost at sea.”

Higgs, of New Providence; Denise
Hield, Monique Curry, Felicia Frazer,
and Anne Bodder, all from Freeport.
Captain Thomas was the only fatality. He
drowned as a result of trying to help one
of the women who could not swim. The
women suffered minor injuries when they
jumped out of the aircraft into the water.

Cross winds are believed to have
caused the accident.

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provide better water for the entire Marsh
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