LEGAZPI CITY, Albay – Bad weather and the steep and slippery terrain of the slope of Mayon Volcano hampered the transportation of the bodies of the four crew and passengers of the ill-fated Cessna plane that crashed near the crater of Mayon Volcano last week. RESPONDERS carry the retrieved bodies...
Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles on Wednesday, Feb. 22, expressed condolences to the families of those who died after a Cessna airplane crashed in Albay recently. Photo: Martin A. Sadongdong / MANILA BULLETIN Marles visited the country and held a bilateral...
LEGAZPI CITY (PNA) – The provincial government of Albay is still thoroughly conducting search and rescue operation to locate the four passengers of the Cessna 340 aircraft which was reported missing on Saturday, Feb. 18, and found on Sunday, Feb. 19, at the crash site near Mayon Volcano in...
Two soldiers who were buying supplies for the search team involved in search and rescue operations on a crashed Cessna plane in Albay were killed when they were ambushed by suspected New People’s Army (NPA) rebels on Monday, Feb. 20. Photo: 9th Infantry Division / 9ID Captain German Franco...
CORDOVILLA (Nino Luces) CAMALIG, Albay – Sixteen veteran mountaineers are on standby to climb Mayon Volcano and look for the four people onboard the Cessna plane owned by Energy Development Corp. (EDC) that crashed near the crater of Mayon Volcano over the weekend. George Cordovilla, team...
The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) would not confirm if the aircraft seen near the crater of the Mayon Volcano was the same small plane that went missing after its takeoff at the Bicol International Airport in Albay. In a statement, CAAP spokesman Eric Apolonio said they still...
RESCUERS struggle to reach the wreckage of the missing Cessna plane in Camalig, Albay after it was located on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 19. (Albay Rep. Joey Salceda FB) CAMALIG, Albay – Rescuers struggled to reach the slopes of Mayon Volcano after the wreckage of the missing Cessna 340 plane was...
THE wreckage of the missing Cessna plane in Bicol was located in Camalig, Albay more than a day after it went missing. (Albay Rep. Joey Salceda FB) LEGAZPI CITY (PNA) – After more than 32 hours of search and rescue efforts, the wreckage of the Cessna aircraft 340, which was reported missing on...
Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda wonders if there's something wrong with the country’s tracking and navigation system. Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda This, after Philippine aviation authorities' seemingly difficulty in locating not one, but two missing ill-fated Cessna planes. "Another...
LEGAZPI CITY (PNA) – At least 218 personnel, 34 vehicles, 11 drones, and four K9 dogs were deployed to Barangays Anoling and Quirangay in Camalig, Albay to beef up the search and rescue efforts for a missing Cessna aircraft and its two pilots and two Australian passengers. SUSPECTED fuselage of...
THE Camalig rescue group convenes to discuss possible strategies to locate the missing Cessna 340A plane before dawn on Sunday, Feb. 19. Mayor Carlos Irwin Baldo led the meeting. (Photo courtesy of Mayor Caloy Baldo) LEGAZPI CITY, Albay -- At least 185 responders are now in Barangay Quirangay and...
A young Army officer died in a roadside bombing allegedly perpetrated by communist rebels in a remote area in Oas, Albay on Wednesday, Feb. 15. In a statement, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) honored 2Lt Nico Malcampo of the 9th Infantry Division for defending a community in Oas town...
