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Desk: Authorities claimed an Indian student and his trainer pilot died when the
wreckage of a small plane was retrieved following an accident in the
Philippines. The two-seater plane registered RP-C8598, took off from Laoag City
Airport in Laoag City, Ilocos Norte, at 12:16 p.m. on Tuesday. Tuguegarao City,
Cagayan, was its intended destination.
According to the
official Philippine News Agency, Anshum Rajkumar Konde and Captain Edzel John
Lumbao Tabuzo were on board the Cessna 152 that went missing in Cagayan
province on Tuesday. The remains of Tabuzo and Konde have been recovered from
the crash scene in Apayao province, according to the agency.
On Wednesday, a medical
and rescue team on a Philippine Air Force Black Hawk helicopter located the
plane's debris and bodies. The plane was flying from Laoag International
Airport in Ilocos Norte to Tuguegarao City Airport in Cagayan.
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Eric Apolonio,
spokesperson for the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, recommended
the public await an official report from the CAAP-Philippine Aeronautical
Rescue Coordination Center. According to the Civil Aviation Authority of the
Philippines (CAAP), the last signal transmission from the aircraft was received
35 nautical miles northwest of Alcala, Cagayan. Last February, all four people
on board a Cessna aircraft perished when it crashed near the crater of Mayon
Volcano.
Earlier, a concerned
citizen from Sanchez Mira town captured a video showing a plane in distress
above Pamplona town. The video was shared on the social media page of the
Cagayan Provincial Information Office.
