Sunday 18 March 2018

Photos: Plane crashes into Philippines house wiping out an entire family who were eating their lunch

A small passenger plane carrying five people crashed into a house shortly after takeoff north of the Philippines capital Manila on Saturday, killing all those on board and five people on the ground, officials said.
Rescuers sifted through the debris following the crash - the Philippines Civil Aviation Authority confirmed that the plane was operated by Lite Air Express and came down soon soon after take off
The Piper-23 Apache plane took off from the airport in Plaridel town in Bulacan province then crash-landed and smashed into the house, Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines spokesman Eric Apolonio and police said.
All five Filipinos on board the six-seat plane were killed, and the crash killed five people on the ground, Plaridel police chief Supt. Julio Lizardo told the Associated Press news agency. 
Rescuers were confronted with a terrible scene when they arrived at the site of the crash 
A rescuer looks at the body of a plane crash victim following a crash of a Piper PA-23 Apache six-seater twin-engine light aircraft on Saturday at a residential area in Plaridel township, Bulacan province north of Manila, in the Philippines
The cause of the crash was not immediately known - witnesses said the plane hit a tree and electric post before slamming into the house
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