Why the JCAA removed the Greenwich Town plane crash report from its website

The Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority this morning tried to explain why it removed the final report of the 2016 Cessna airplane crash from its website.

The report was published on the JCAA’s website hours before The Gleaner online carried a story about the findings.

However, it was withdrawn shortly after the Gleaner report.

For weeks, The Gleaner had been mulling a leaked copy of the report.

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At a press conference this morning, the JCCA piqued suspicions when it explained that it removed the final report from its website out of respect for the families of the crash victims.

However, the family members had received confidential copies of the report from as far back as July last year.

Flight instructor Jonathan Worton, and student pilots Danshuvar Gilmore, 19, and Ramone Forbes, 17, died when the Cessna aircraft in which they were travelling went down in Greenwich Town, Kingston seconds after take-off from the Tinson Pen Aerodrome.

"There were some concerns, certainly of the families of the deceased that were involved," said JCAA director general Nari Williams Singh, adding that the concern related to the families having to relive the event that led to the demise of their loved ones.

However, the family members have been agitating for the report to be publicly examined and have appeared in the media since The Gleaner exposed the findings.

Meanwhile, JCAA chairman Phillip Henriques, said the plan was to make the report public after today’s press conference.

He said there was “a process” that the JCCA was following and so the report was pulled from the JCAA website would have been remounted.

It is now available there.

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