Members of the team tasked to find the Cessna plane that crashed on Mt Mayon on Feb 18 make their way toward the wreckage on a gully near the volcano’s summit crater on Feb 23. The team had to brave steep, slippery and rocky slopes to retrieve the bodies of the four people aboard the plane. - COURTESY OF CESSNA 340A INCIDENT COMMAND POST
LEGAZPI CITY (Philippine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network): The four persons on board a Cessna plane that crashed on Mayon Volcano were confirmed dead on Thursday (Feb 23), but the team sent to search for the wreckage reported that it might take a while to retrieve the bodies due to the steep and dangerous terrain, authorities said.
At a press briefing on Thursday, Camalig Mayor Carlos Irwin Baldo Jr, the incident commander, said they could still not determine the time the bodies would be brought down from the crash site, considering the difficult terrain.
