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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 airline was founded on February 26, 1941, as Philippine Air Lines when its franchise to operate was transferred from Philippine Aerial Taxi Company (PATCO). [ 3 ] Formerly one of the largest airlines in Asia, PAL was severely affected by the 1997 Asian financial crisis .
On August 4, 1984, a Philippine Airlines BAC One-Eleven 500 overshot runway 36 by 30 meters (100 ft) and landed at sea. All 70 passengers and five crew survived. [16] On February 15, 2007, Philippine Airlines Flight 191 from Manila, performed by an Airbus A320, overshot the runway. There were no casualties among 113 passengers and six crew members.
It then announced in September the planned reassignments: Terminal 1 would exclusively serve Philippine Airlines flights, while Terminal 2 would maintain its current status as an all-domestic terminal, and Terminal 3 would be fully dedicated to international flights of Cebu Pacific, the AirAsia Group, and all foreign airlines.
The first Airbus A320 flight to land was Philippine Airlines Flight 2059 from Manila, a flight operated by PAL Express, on that day. [8] Cebu Pacific followed suit on November 23, landing its first A320 flight as Flight 899. Both airlines upgraded most of their Caticlan flights to A320s, having previously served by turboprops. [16]
[7] [8] Philippine Airlines operated chartered flights from China, South Korea, and Taiwan in 2018. [9] Meanwhile, Tigerair Taiwan launched commercial international flights to the airport from Taipei on June 7, 2019. [10] Cebu Pacific also launched flights to Hong Kong from the airport on November 17 of that year. [11]
On November 21, 2019, Philippine Airlines Flight 113, operated by a Boeing 777-300ER suffered an engine compressor stall shortly after take off from the airport's Runway 25R, forcing the flight to return. The flight made a successful emergency landing just 13 minutes after departure.
Roxas Airport (IATA: RXS, ICAO: RPVR) is a domestic airport serving the general area of Roxas City and the province of Capiz, in the Philippines.The airport is classified as a Class 1 principal airport, by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, a body of the Department of Transportation that is responsible for the operations of most minor and domestic airports serving various parts ...