A civilian cargo plane owned by an American company crashed at Bagram Air Field, north of the Afghan capital, soon after takeoff on Monday, killing all seven people aboard, the U.S.-led military coalition said.
A South African military aircraft on an unknown mission to an area near the village where former President Nelson Mandela lives crashed in a mountain range, officials said Thursday. It was unclear whether there were any survivors.
Civil aviation authorities will now have to trace the planes cleared by the same inspector who declared the airworthiness of the Piper Seneca plane that crashed in Masbate on Aug. 18, killing Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo, according to officials.
The family of Captain Jessup Bahinting conceded on Tuesday that he might have committed errors that led to the crash of the Aviatour Air’s Piper Seneca plane last August 18, killing him, a co-pilot and Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo.
Transportation Secretary Jose Emilio Abaya has confirmed that pilot error was one of the causes of the plane crash that killed Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo last August.
Pronouncements by civil aviation officials ruling out foul play in the Aug. 18 plane crash that killed Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo are premature since the investigation by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines is still ongoing, according to Malacañang.
How do you prepare for a plane crash? Philippine National Police Director General Nicanor Bartolome raised this question on Monday as he called for sobriety among users of social networking sites who blamed the tragic death of Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo on his police aide, Chief Insp. June Abrazado.
Lawmakers who lavished Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo with praise for his track record as a public servant rushed to explain on Tuesday why they sat on Robredo’s confirmation as a Cabinet secretary at the Commission on Appointments for two years until he died in a plane crash on Saturday.
On Wednesday, Capt. Jessup Bahinting was asked if he could lend one of his planes to the city government to pick up four vials of antidote for snake bite on Camiguin Island.
Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo was intent on staying in office for the full term of President Aquino despite nagging demands for his resignation, said Harvey Keh, lead convenor of Kaya Natin Movement for Good Governance and Ethical Leadership.
After spending Sunday in Masbate, President Aquino stayed overnight to oversee the resumption of the search-and-rescue operation for Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo and two pilots starting 5 a.m. Monday.
The official family of President Aquino remained hopeful that Interior and Local Governments Secretary Jesse Robredo would survive the plane crash despite the seeming lack of progress in the search and rescue operations in Masbate headed by President Aquino himself.
The wreckage of the ill-fated twin engine Piper Seneca, which carried Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo and with Registry No. RPC 4431, has not been found, as of Sunday evening.
