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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.
The first ground fatalities from an aircraft crash occurred on 21 July 1919, when the Wingfoot Air Express crash took place. The airship crashed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, Illinois, killing three of the five occupants of the aircraft, in addition to ten people on the ground. [1]
A Boeing 777-300ER, registration number RP-C7775, operating as Philippine Airlines flight PR 113, was a scheduled 15-hour non-stop flight from Los Angeles to Manila, Philippines. The flight just took off at 11:45 am local time from Los Angeles International Airport , when almost instantly a series of loud, gunshot-like bangs filled the cabin on ...
Wama Airfield, Morotai, Netherlands East Indies, c. 13 February 1945 (air echelon only) McGuire Field, San Jose, Mindoro, Philippines, 22 February 1945 (ground echelon only) Puerto Princesa Airfield, Palawan, Philippines, 6 March – 11 December 1945 (ground echelon only until 25 March) Camp Stoneman, California, 30 December 1945 – 1 January 1946
(see Bakers Creek air crash) A memorial to the victims of this crash was installed at the Selfridge Gate of Arlington National Cemetery on 11 June 2009, donated by the Bakers Creek Memorial Association. The gate is named for Lt. Thomas Selfridge, killed in a 1908 crash at Fort Myer, Virginia, the first victim of a powered air accident. [77] 16 June
Crowd crush during an attack by the RAF Bomber Command in World War II as they made their way into Galleria delle Grazie, a railway tunnel used as an air-raid shelter. Genoa, Italy 328 24 May 1964 Estadio Nacional disaster: Lima, Peru 270 23 May 1994 1994 Hajj stampede: Mina, Mecca, Saudi Arabia 258 25 January 2005 Mandher Devi temple stampede
MANILA (Reuters) -Philippine authorities ordered on Monday an investigation into the crash of an Air Force plane that overshot a runway killing 47 soldiers on board, three civilians on the ground ...
[1] [2] It is the second deadliest air disaster in the Philippines after Air Philippines Flight 541, which occurred two years later. The memorial park of the crash site. Today, the crash site was now a memorial, inaugurated in February 2, 2021 for the victims of the flight 387 and the memorial is now part of a tourism complex in Misamis Oriental.