CAAP: Search for missing Cessna still unsuccessful | Inquirer News

CAAP: Search for missing Cessna still unsuccessful

By: - Reporter / @BPinlacINQ
/ 08:53 PM February 09, 2023

More than two weeks since a Cessna plane went missing in Isabela with six people onboard, the search-and-rescue operations on Thursday still yielded negative results. 

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MANILA, Philippines – After more than two weeks of unsuccessful search-and-rescue operations for a Cessna aircraft that vanished with six people on board in Isabela, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) is still trying to locate the plane and its passengers.

The agency is in close contact with the Cauayan Airport/Control Tower and other related offices to get the requirements necessary to continue the mission.

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“Negative aerial search operation conducted today. However, ground search and rescue teams had been mobilized to provide continuous search [operations] to different probable search areas,” Meneses said.

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The six-seater Cessna 206 plane, with tail number RPC 117, took off at the Cauayan Domestic Airport at around 2:16 p.m. on Jan. 24. It was expected to arrive at the coastal town of Maconacon at 3 p.m.

As it was not found immediately after being declared missing, CAAP placed the Cessna under “distress phase” which points to “reasonable certainty that an aircraft and its occupants are threatened by grave and imminent danger or require immediate assistance.”

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