Team reaches Cessna plane crash site; bodies of 6 passengers retrieved

THE Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) said the team has reached the crash site in Isabela and the bodies of six passengers will be brought down as soon as possible.

In a statement, PDRRMO said the retrieval team arrived at the crash site at 8 in the morning on Saturday.

The weather has slowed down retrieval efforts, it added. “The rain and the slippery slopes slowed them,” the agency said. “The remains of the pilot and the five passengers will be respectfully placed in large plastic bags and then into the cadaver bags. The bodies will be carried down the mountain and to Divilacan proper as soon as possible,” the PDRRMO said.

The aircraft was finally found on March 9 “by the composite teams from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and with some Dumagat who spotted the ill-fated aircraft in Barangay Ditarum, Divilacan, Isabela,” the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines added.