Firefighters inspect the site of a deadly plane crash at Muan International Airport in Muan County, South Jeolla Province, Dec. 30. (Yonhap) The remains of 141 of the 179 people killed in this week's Jeju Air plane crash have tentatively been identified, the land ministry said Monday. During...
Jeju Air Flight 2216, which crashed at Muan International Airport on Sunday, claiming a total of 179 lives, is suspected to have resulted from a bird strike that disabled the landing gear. The failure to deploy all three landing gears forced the pilot to attempt an emergency belly landing, leading...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — All but two of the 181 people aboard Jeju Air that skidded off a runway, slammed into a concrete fence and burst into flames Sunday, were killed in one of South Korea’s worst aviation disasters , officials said. Relatives of passengers on a plane which...
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union – A flight instructor and a student pilot were injured when a Cessna 172 training aircraft with tail number RP-C6923 crashed in the sea of Barangay Canaoay here on Tuesday morning, May 21. A CESSNA plane turns upside down after it crashed in San Fernando City, La...
CAUAYAN CITY, Isabela – The passenger of a Piper light plane that crashed in San Mariano, this province, on Bonifacio Day was found dead by rescuers on Sunday morning, December 10. According to the Incident Management Team (IMT), K9 trackers found the body of the woman 200 meters away from the...
CAUAYAN CITY, Isabela – Rescuers on Thursday, December 7, reached the area where a light plane crashed in this province. However, Joshua Hapinat, spokesperson of the Incident Management Team (IMT), said that the pilot was found dead. The pilot had an unidentified female passenger but she was...
The military has recovered the bodies of two persons who were killed in a Cessna plane crash on Tuesday in Luna, Apayao. The Army 503rd Infantry Brigade identified the victims as Capt. Edzel John Lumbao Tabuzo and student-pilot Anshum Rajkumar Konde. The body of Tabuzo, the 24-year-old pilot of the...
TUGUEGARAO CITY (PNA) – Two persons died when a Cessna plane crashed in Apayao province, authorities said on Wednesday. However, rescuers could not still retrieve the bodies of Capt. Edzel John Lumbao Tabuzo and student pilot Indian Anshum Rajkumar Konde from the crash site. Earlier, the...
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...
The crashed SIAI-Marchetti SF260-TP training aircraft of the Philippine Air Force (PAF) was on its way back to its base in Sangley Point, Cavite City when it met the accident that killed its two pilots onboard. Photo: Pilar, Bataan Municipal Police Station This was the result of the initial...
BADHOEVEDORP, Netherlands -- A Dutch court on Thursday sentenced three men to life imprisonment over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014, in the early stages of a war that eight years later would put the world on edge. Russians Igor Girkin and Sergei Dubinsky and...
