Plane carrying entire board of Sundance Resources Ltd. Crashed in dense jungle in the Republic of Congo. None survivors. Sundance mining executives Lto.: R Craig Oliver, John Carr-Gregg, Ken Talbot, Geoff Wedlock, and Don Lewis.
The wreckage of a plane carrying the entire board of Sundance Resources Ltd. was found in dense jungle in the Republic of Congo, Cameroon’s Minister of Communications Issa Tchiroma Bakary said today.
None of the 11 passengers, who included millionaire mining magnate Ken Talbot, were found alive, the minister said in Cameroon’s capital, Yaounde. The aircraft was reported missing on June 19 on a flight from Yaounde to Yangadou in Congo.
Six Australian, two British, two French and one U.S. citizen were on the twin turboprop Casa C212 plane, which had been chartered by Sundance. Fog over the jungle had obstructed the helicopter search over the past two days.
The Sundance executives, including Chairman Geoff Wedlock, Chief Executive Officer Don Lewis, Company Secretary John Carr- Gregg and non-executive directors John Jones and Craig Oliver, were visiting the governments of Cameroon and Congo and the company’s $3.4 billion Mbalam iron-ore project in Cameroon.
Sundance shares had earlier been suspended from trading in Sydney. Talbot was a director of Sundance and its largest shareholder.
