Philippine Airlines Flight 206 (PR206) was the route designator of a domestic flight from the

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Loakan Airport Loakan Airport ( ilo, Pagtayaban ti Loakan, fil, Paliparan ng Loakan) serves the general area of Baguio, Philippines. It is classified as a Class 2 principal (minor domestic) airport by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP). L ...

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. On June 26, 1987, the

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crashed onto a mountain en route to Baguio, killing all 50 people on board.

Accident

On the morning of June 26, 1987, Flight 206 departed the Manila Domestic Airport for Loakan Airport in Baguio, around north of Manila. It was scheduled to arrive at 11:10:00

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in Baguio, a city with an altitude of about . As the plane approached Baguio City, its pilot reported poor visibility. A

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was also reported in the area. Flight 206 disappeared from the radar screens around ten minutes before it was scheduled to land. The wreckage of the plane was discovered five hours after it had gone missing. Flight 206 had crashed onto the fog-shrouded slopes of Mount Ugu, a mountain located between

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and Kayapa, Nueva Vizcaya. The crash site was located around 180 meters below the summit of Mount Ugu, and 15 kilometers south of Loakan Airport.

Fatalities

There were no survivors among the 46 passengers and 4 crew members on the plane. Most of the fatalities were

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, including

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of Marawi City, and Gloria Mapua-Lim, wife of then-

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executive vice-president Roberto Lim. At least one American citizen, John Neill who was then the Managing Director of Texas Instruments Philippines in Baguio, died in the crash. The crash of Flight 206 was, at that time, dubbed as the second worst commercial aviation accident in Philippine history; however, the report of ''

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'' proved to be inaccurate, as Philippine Airlines' previous accident in 1967 actually had fewer fatalities than Flight 206. The death toll has since been superseded by the crash of

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in 1998, which was surpassed two years later by Air Philippines Flight 541. The crash of Flight 206 remained the third-deadliest accident on Philippine soil until 2021, when a

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of the Philippine Air Force

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claiming 53 lives. During the Flight 206 crash,

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Corazon Aquino and the airline's board of directors gave condolences to the victims of the Flight 206 and their respective families.

References

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