The bodies of the four passengers and the debris of the ill-fated Cessna plane were already verified and documented but the retrieval team temporarily suspended operations on Thursday, Feb. 23, due to the loose soil and the fogginess in the area.
– The bodies of the four passengers and the debris of the ill-fated Cessna plane which crashed near the crater of Mayon Volcano on Saturday, Feb. 18, were already verified and documented but the retrieval team temporarily suspended operations on Thursday, Feb. 23, due to the loose soil and the fogginess in the area.
Baldo, the incident commander, in an earlier press conference on the same day, confirmed that they have shifted from rescue to retrieval operation upon receiving information and photos confirming the bodies of passengers, including the pilot, Capt. Rufino James T. Crisostomo Jr., the mechanic Joel G. Martin, and two Australian passengers, Simon Chipperfield and Karthi Santhanam.
Dr. Cedric Daep, Albay Provincial Safety and Emergency Management Office chief, said earlier that they will mobilize another batch of responders to back up the 28-man team that first approached the crash site to complete the mission.
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