Managing Director, Edwin Hodge speaking to the media said that he was alerted of ---disarrange sometime after 2 pm yesterday afternoon. Hodge said that he immediately implemented a search and rescue team to aid in finding the man.
"When I was contacted my immediate reaction was to find the individual as while situations like these are normal it is always a sad situation whenever someone is lost at sea," Hodge said. He noted that his team was very aggressive in their attempt to relocate the lost fisherman.
However after some three odd hours of search the airline called off the search die to the fact that no signs of -----was found. Hodge noted that late yesterday evening his crew, others and family members of -were relief to learnt that he was rescued by a boat who was traversing the waters at that time. According to reports after -----boat capsized he had drifted thus making his rescue problematic.
Hodge admitted that hearing the relief voice of -family and also seeing their happy faces was satisfying knowing that a family was spared of a possible tragic lost of a husband, father and brother. --------‘s family was in high praises for what they dubbed as "Winair's enormous and significant assistance "in trying to find him. "We are truly grateful and thankful for the very significant and impressive work that Mr. Hodge and his airline did for us today.
I want to publicly record our personal thanks and gratitude and would like to inform the general public of the generosity and charitable contributions that the airline company exercises in trying to relocate -----, we thank Winair and trust that the airline continues in this vein," a family member was quoted as saying.
It was learnt that ----was found safe and in good health. He was however taken to be medically examined as part of police procedures to ensure that he was okay. Hodge expressed satisfaction and congratulations to his crew for the enormous and significant efforts that they invested in the mission of finding ----------.
"While we are a commercially operated airline company we are also a humanitarian company that seeks to assist in times of sorrow and disasters as we are community oriented. I am pleased with the work of my pilots and I would like to reassure the people of St Maarten and by extension the other islands that we sere that Winair will willingly and readily get involve in missions like these as we believe strongly that as a corporate community we need to help wherever we can," Hodge declared.
He wished -----and his family Easter greetings noting that the readiness of his company to help in his safe return forms part of the Easter season of helping and sharing love and affection to each other. He said that he trust that --------family is relief and happy with his return urging -------to be a more careful in future adding that the airline wishes him speedy recovery from the trauma that he may have experienced after being lost.