Last Updated: February 19, 2023, 19:29 IST
The Cessna 340 plane with 4 on board went lacking shortly after departing for Manila from Bicol International Airport in Albay province, a number of kilometres from Mayon volcano, on Saturday.
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In a separate incident, two Philippine air pressure aviators have been killed in a coaching train final month when their SF260 Marchetti aircraft crashed right into a rice paddy in Bataan province, close to Manila
Rescuers struggled on Sunday to succeed in the slopes of an lively volcano within the central Philippines the place a small aircraft is believed to have crashed, officers mentioned, with the destiny of these on board nonetheless unconfirmed.
The Cessna 340 plane with 4 on board went lacking shortly after departing for Manila from Bicol International Airport in Albay province, a number of kilometres from Mayon volcano, on Saturday.
Manila-based Energy Development Corporation mentioned the lacking aircraft belonged to the corporate and it was in search of to verify if the wreckage noticed on Sunday in “very steep terrain and excessive altitude of about 6,000 toes” was theirs.
Two of the four passengers on board the missing plane were Australian, Bicol police said, adding rescue teams with sniffer dogs had been deployed to find the crash site.
“The problem is the weather is bad and it hampers the visibility of the ground search,” Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines spokesman Eric Apolonio advised AFP.
Albay catastrophe officer Cedric Daep mentioned a Cessna plane had been seen 300 to 350 metres (984 toes to 1,148 toes) from the crater. But he warned the rumbling volcano might erupt at any time, which was complicating rescue efforts.
“There may be a sudden ash explosion and we might be added to the casualties,” Daep told local radio DZBB.
An aerial search will continue Monday to locate the missing people.
“We are not discounting the possibility that they could still be alive,” Daep mentioned.
Another Cessna aircraft went lacking final month, on January 24, within the northern province of Isabela. That aircraft’s wreckage has nonetheless not been discovered, Apolonio mentioned.
In a separate incident, two Philippine air pressure aviators have been killed in a coaching train final month when their SF260 Marchetti aircraft crashed right into a rice paddy in Bataan province, close to Manila.
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