Calgary man killed in plane crash in Guyana

A Calgarian who was married and the father of two grown daughters has been killed in a plane crash in Guyana, a country on the northern coast of South America.

54-year-old Nick Dmitriev worked as software engineer and systems operator for DigitalWorld Mapping in Calgary.

He was one of two people killed when a light plane crashed into a home in Sparendaam. The American pilot, 71-year-old Pierre Angiel of Florida, also died in the crash. No one on the ground was injured.

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Dmetriev’s family has arrived into Georgetown to visit the crash site and bring home his body.

The president of DigitalWorld Mapping, Morgan Steeves, says Dmitriev loved to fly and was the first to volunteer for overseas assignments.

In a company statement released Monday afternoon, Steeves says Dmitriev worked as a research scientist and a Ph.D. post-graduate student in his native Russia before moving to Canada in 1990 and that he was the author of 3 patents and more than 10 scientific publications.