MANILA, Dec 11 (NNN-PNA) – Rescuers yesterday, found the body of a female passenger of a Piper plane that crashed in Isabela province, in the northern Philippines over a week ago, Constante Foronda, head of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, said.
He said, the rescuers found the passenger’s remains past 9:00 a.m. local time yesterday, some 200 metres away from the crash site, in the forested boondocks of San Mariano town.
“The missing passenger was found lifeless by K9 trackers about 200 metres down the mountain slope from the plane wreckage,” Foronda said.
The body of the plane’s pilot was found on Dec 7, two days after a military helicopter spotted the wreckage in the forest.
The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines said, the single-engine light Piper aircraft took off at 9:39 a.m. local time on Nov 30, at the Cauayan City Airport in Isabela, heading for Palanan, a coastal town east of the city, when it went missing.– NNN-PNA
