A long-range drone used by a search team looking for the missing Cessna plane and its pilot and five passengers in Isabela province detected a “white object” in a remote forest in Divilacan town, raising hope it was the distressed aircraft. /PDI
forest in Divilacan town on Thursday, raising hope it was the distressed aircraft, authorities said on Friday.
At a press briefing, Constante Foronda, Isabela provincial disaster risk reduction management officer, said the area in Divilacan’s Barangay Dicaruyan matched the location pinpointed by a farmer near the place who reported seeing the plane make a “loop downward” around the time it disappeared from radar.
RP-C1174 Cessna took off from Cauayan Airport at 2:16 p.m. on Tuesday and was to arrive at Maconacon Airport at 3 p.m. that day. But airport personnel said the plane went off radar an hour after leaving Cauayan. Four of the passengers were to attend a relative’s wake in Maconacon.
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