Wreckage of lost Cessna plane sighted on Philippine volcano; all four in board are feared dead


MANILA, Feb. 19 (Xinhua): A military helicopter has sighted the wreckage of a small plane that went missing on Saturday morning in Albay province, southeast of Manila, a government spokesperson said Sunday.

Tim Florece, the information officer of Camalig town, told a local radio interview that the military chopper saw the tail of the aircraft less than 2 km from the crater of Mt. Mayon, a 2,460-meter cone-shaped volcano located in Albay province approximately 300 km southeast of Manila on the island of Luzon.

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