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Mount Manunggal is the third-highest peak in the island of Cebu after Osmena Peak and Lugsangan Peak. It is located in Barangay Magsaysay in Balamban, Cebu province, rising 982 m (3,222 ft) above sea level. [1] It is the site of the crash of the presidential plane Mt. Pinatubo that killed President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others on March 17 ...
Poverty incidence of Balamban 10 20 30 40 50 2006 41.60 2009 37.56 2012 20.04 2015 25.56 2018 18.90 2021 34.03 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Balamban has industries that mainly focuses on shipbuilding for multinational corporations. The biggest economic driver in Balamban is the West Cebu Estate (WCE), a 540-hectare (1,300-acre) mixed-use development in Balamban. It is owned and ...
In the mid-afternoon of March 17, a local town official in Cebu announced that the plane had crashed on the slopes of Mount Manunggal, in Balamban, Cebu, approximately 22 miles (35 km) northwest of Cebu City. [8] Several local residents had heard the crash and discovered the flaming wreckage of the plane on earlier that morning.
17 March 1957 – 1957 Cebu Douglas C-47 crash. A C-47 Skytrain transport aircraft flying from Cebu to Manila crashed on the slopes of Mount Manunggal in Balamban, Cebu. The crash killed 25 of the aircraft's 26 occupants, including President Ramon Magsaysay. Several government officials, military officers, and journalists also died.
March 17 - 1957 Cebu Douglas C-47 crash - Mount Pinatubo, a Douglas C-47 carrying President Ramon Magsaysay, Education Secretary Gregorio Hernandez Jr., former Senator Tomas Cabili, Congressman Pedro Lopez and Philippine Air Force Commanding General Benito Ebuen to Manila from a visit to Cebu, crashed into Mount Manunggal in Balamban, Cebu killing 25 of the 26 people on board.
Name: mountains are sorted according to only names (without the "Mount" prefix) for easier reference in name and spelling variants. Unnamed peaks are italicized . (note: to minimize clutter, citations for names are limited only to mountains with variant names , spellings, and/or those that currently do not have elevation data)
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