The Tribune

ENA White-Charlton, the mother of Enamae Polowick, who died last Thursday in the tragic Mayaguana plane crash, is still coming to terms with her daughter’s death, relatives say.

“She is finding it very difficult to believe that as she sat awaiting her children’s return that morning, a telephone call informed her that they will never return,” Mrs White-Charlton’s son and daughter said yesterday.

Mrs Polowick and her Canadian husband, Tim Polowick, died after a plane collided with the truck they were sitting in.

The aircraft was forced to make a midnight landing on the unlit, damaged runway to pick up Rev Robert Black who was in need of emergency medical care, last Thursday. Upon landing, it clipped one car before colliding with another.

That second car, in which Mrs Polowick, Mr Polowick and Edith Collie sat, burst into flames - killing all three inside.

The vehicles had come out to help with the emergency airlift, using their headlights to illuminate the runway, which is not equipped with lights.