On February 2, 1998, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 owned by Cebu Pacific Air crashed on the slopes of Mount Sumagaya in Claveria, Misamis Oriental, killing all 104 people on board. The crash was one of the deadliest aviation accidents in the Philippines.
The crash site is accessible only to mountain climbers. At the jump-off point at Mt. Lumot, a shrine was erected in remembrance of the Flight 387 crash victims.
photo by jade palacio
Here’s a photo of the shrine in heavy fog conditions.
photo from trekero.blogspot.com
Mountain climbers/trekkers pose on the shrine.
photo by parkinglotpoet of the travelesque
Below are some photos at the crash site.
web photos by Joel Ampiloquio
If you draw a straight line on the map from Tacloban to CDO, you will pass directly above Camiguin. But after take off, the plane has to traverse leyte gulf to avoid the mountains of Leyte island after take off. Now, if you draw a straight line from Leyte Gulf to Lumbia, you will pass directly above the tall Sumagaya area.
Simple. In aviation, that is called an Error Chain. Not one error but multiple. Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_of_events_(aviation)
I remember that day. I went home to eat lunch & somebody said that a plane did not arrived on the time it was supposed to. They listened to Bombo Radyo. And so for the next days.