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The Cebu airport was relatively unaffected by the storm while the airports of the Eastern Visayas were unusable immediately after. [ 17 ] On November 12, 2013, the world's longest and heaviest aircraft, the Antonov An-225 Mriya , landed at MCIA from the Zagreb International Airport in Croatia for the first time in the Philippines.
Philippine Airlines Flight 434, sometimes referred to as PAL434 or PR434, was a scheduled flight on December 11, 1994, from Manila to Tokyo with a quick stopover in Cebu on a Boeing 747-283B that was seriously damaged by a bomb, killing one passenger and damaging vital control systems, although the plane was in a repairable state. [1]
The Philippine Air Force was allowed to use the airport in times of war and for required daily missions. [3] The airport would later suspend operations by April 27, 1966, after a new airport opened on the island of Mactan. [3] [4] On February 19, 1981, the first papal mass in Cebu [a] was held at the airport by Pope John Paul II. [5]
Korean Air Flight 631 was a scheduled international passenger flight operating from Incheon International Airport near Seoul, South Korea to Mactan–Cebu International Airport in Metro Cebu, Philippines. On 23 October 2022, the Airbus A330-300 operating this flight overran the runway while landing in Cebu due to a failure with the hydraulics ...
Mactan–Benito Ebuen Air Base is located on Mactan island, [1] in Lapu-Lapu City, in the province of Cebu in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines. Mactan island is best known as being the location where the Spanish explorer, Ferdinand Magellan was killed by the forces of Lapulapu during his circumnavigation of the earth.
Mactan–Cebu International Airport, located on Mactan Island, is the second busiest airport in the Philippines. Cebu has the most combined cities and municipalities of any province in the Philippines, with 53 in total. With 9 cities in total, it has the second most number of cities after its neighboring province of Negros Occidental.
On December 27, 2024, a Bombardier DHC-8 Q400 operating as PAL Express flight 2P-2285 (RP-C5917) which came from Cebu experienced a “minor runway excursion” on Bacolod–Silay Airport upon landing at approximately 5:30 a.m. on Runway 03 due to heavy rainfall that significantly reduced braking efficiency. All passengers and crew on board ...
Bantayan Airport (ICAO: RPSB) is an airport serving Bantayan Island in the province of Cebu in the Philippines. The airport is located in the municipality of Santa Fe , approximately 3.9 nautical miles (7.2 km; 4.5 mi) from the centre of Bantayan municipality .