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Posted (admin) in on May-20-2008 | 169 views

Bohol, PhilippinesA reported Cessna 206 crashed yesterday in the Philippines’ central Bohol Province resulting to two injured pilots, identified as Capt. Luzvimindo Amoy and Capt. Alain Bandala.

The seven-seat, single-engine plane, with RPC-1996 registration number had gone down in a rice field in Talibon in the province of Bohol at 11:45 a.m. (local time).

A man witnessed the plane crash and arrived at the scene of the accident. He had both pilots rushed to the local hospital immediately.

According to the pilots they were flying 3,500 feet going to Eastern Samar, a coastal province in the eastern Philippines to pick up passengers when the engine suddenly broke down.

The plane is owned by Southern Pioneer, a company owned by Kevin Go, who bought the plane from its previous owner, Philippines’ former senator Sergio Osmeña III.


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