As weather conditions improved on Tuesday, search and rescue teams were allowed by disaster response officials in Albay province to climb Mayon Volcano to reach an area near the summit crater where a missing plane was believed to have crashed.
Albay Gov. Edcel Lagman on Tuesday ordered an intensive air and ground search operation to hasten the search and rescue.
“The province cannot afford to prolong the agony not only [of] the families of the missing passengers but also [of] the rescuers and volunteers,” he said in a statement on Tuesday.The debris of the Cessna RPC340 was located some 350 meters from the volcano’s summit crater on Sunday afternoon. The condition of the pilot, Capt. Rufino James Crisostomo Jr.
CAREFUL PLANNING Members of rescue groups from Albay assess the conditions at Mayon Volcano on Sunday as they start planning the operation to reach the gully where the wreckage of the Cessna plane was seen by an aerial search team.Cedric Daep, chief of the Albay Public Safety and Emergency Management Office, said that as of their 5 p.m.
Daep said these groups would set up camp there on Tuesday and continue the ascent early Wednesday. He, however, could not say what time the rescue teams would reach the crash site. He said some members of rescue teams were transported to the area through helicopter from the TOG 5. Two more attempts to airlift two batches of responders had failed because of the heavy clouds on the slopes of the volcano on Tuesday. INQSubscribe to our daily newsletter
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