BATANES – A small plane carrying five passengers including an infant, crashed on the runway after a bad landing at the Itbayat Airport in Itbayat town here on Wednesday morning, Dec. 14.
The good news was, the plane’s five passengers and the two pilots identified as Capt. Adrian Jether Don B Aquino, 41, and Carlo Cariño were unscathed in the early morning incident in the small airport.
The plane, operated by Flite Airways with tail No. RPC-1801, landed at the airport around 8 a.m. but the two pilots lost control of the plane’s left side break.
As a result, the aircraft veered right and went beyond the concrete pavement. Owing to momentum, the aircraft reached runway 36 of the 1000-meter airport, according to police Corporal John Dale Nobleza, investigator-on-case.
No one was injured in the incident, but the plane’s nose and front wheel broke.
The crews and all passengers were immediately evacuated by the responding rescuers.