Two air crashes in one day

Tragic day: Rescuers working at the site of the crash in Bataan, where two Philippine air force aviators were killed. — AFP

A PHILIPPINE air force plane crashed on a farm northwest of Manila, killing the two people on board, while a search was continuing for a private aircraft carrying six people that went missing the previous day in the mountainous north.

The SF-260 plane was on a training flight from Sangley airport in Cavite province south of Manila when it plummeted into a rice field in Bataan province yesterday, air force spokesperson Col Maria Consuelo Castillo said.