CASE UNCLOSED: Magsaysay Plane Crash (1 of 7)

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Episode on December 18, 2008
Thursday night after Saksi

Midnight of March 17, 1957 President Ramon Magsaysay, together with 27 other people, boarded Mt. Pinatubo, the C47 plane that would take them from Cebu to Manila. Thirteen minutes after the take-off, a distress call from the pilots was received by the airport tower in Manila. This was to be the last contact from the presidential plane.

Mutilated bodies and charred parts of the plane were found the morning after at the side of Mt. Manunggal in Balamban, Cebu. President Magsaysay, along with 26 people on board Mt. Pinatubo, died in one of the most shocking plane crash incidents in the Philippines. Only one survived to tell the story.

This Thursday, Kara David retells accounts of the crash that killed President Ramon Magsaysay. What really caused the plane to crash at the side of Mt. Manunggal?

Years after the ill-fated flight, the Magsaysay family still believes that the plane crash was just a mere accident. But there were rumors that a bomb was placed inside the plane and that this was allegedly planned by the US CIA. Is there truth to this theory? Prof. Arnold Azurin explains these allegations.

Under the direction of indie filmmaker Sigrid Bernardo, watch the last 13 minutes of President Magsaysay in this Thursday's episode of Case Unclosed with Kara David, airing right after the late night newscast Saksi.


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• Magsaysay

[dandansoy8]

Pang 13 syang sumakay, 13 mins after take-off...ang galing ng script ah

[ihp0ts]

Pwede ba bili kayo ng VideoCaptureCard sa CDRKing o kaya PCXpress. Para hindi cheap cellphone video tong ina-upload nyo s youtube, ang cheap!

[mjo1218]

I could have admired this Engineer President, even his education secretary died with the crash. A big lost in the foundation of the Philippine republic. Can the airplane, Pinatubo, a code name for disaster? I remember in 1990 when the Mt. Pinatubo erupted that damaged American Clark airbase, but before that eruption happened, American soldiers were leaving the country, I remember oppositions had won the "No to US military bases". What a co-incidence.

[nyxon79]

is there a clearer copy aside from that of GMA's?

[micosabeh]

hehehe ayus ung mga post dito ahh regarding kay Magsaysay yung palabas pero si Ninoy yung pinagtatalunan hehehe

[DonBringer]

CIA killed NINOY AQUINO 

[purehuman]

U.S. Gov't are known to eliminate nationalist & patriotic leaders of south american countries opposing their interest... and they will continue to do it in different ways.

[superc]

OMG I KNEW IT. CIA DiD IT.

[lepper24dudes]

Philippines' air crash investigation or Mayday