Bowen allegedly suffered unexpected health condition before crash

But the investigation into the last flight of Sir Barry Bowen will take at least one year to be completed.  On Wednesday, the plane and all the debris were picked up and removed by Bowen’s workers and transported to his hangar.  The Belize Department of Civil Aviation will complete the painstaking task of reconstructing the plane to conduct its own postmortem on the machinery. At Wednesday’s press conference, held by the Department of Aviation, the panel revealed that they could not find any mechanical failure and felt that some other factor may have caused Bowen to lose control of the plane. Though they did not say what those factors might be, they did reveal that they would be seeking the results of Bowen’s autopsy to be part of their final report.  These results have still not been confirmed but it is reported that he suffered an unexpected health condition. On February twenty-sixth, the business icon piloted his V3HDR aircraft from Belize City to San Pedro, and at approximately five-eighteen p.m. the craft crashed point eight of a mile before reaching the San Pedro airstrip. Bowen was an experienced pilot and he passed his last physical examination in 2009.  The investigators said that the plane hit three masts on a barge behind Captain Shark’s Boatyard in the San Pablo area of the island.  The plane careened across the lagoon where it came to a complete stop.  Bowen and the four passengers, Michael and Jillian Casey and their two children, two and a half year old Makayla and five month old Bryce were all killed in of the worst plane crashes in close to twenty years. Bowen was given an official funeral on Tuesday and interned at the San Ignacio cemetery on the family plot.  On Wednesday, the Casey’s were transported back to the U.S. for funeral services in Albany, New York.