Wreckage of Missing Philippine Plane Found After Month-Long Search, No Survivors

Rescuers prepare to search for passengers of a Cessna 340 aircraft with registry number RP-C2080 at Tumpa Gulley, Camalig town, Albay province, the Philippines, on Feb. 20, 2023. Bureau of Fire Protection Camalig via AP

A Philippine rescue team has found the wreckage of a Philippine air force plane that crashed in northern Isabela province on Jan. 24 and went missing, but there were no survivors, an official said on Thursday.

Constante Foronda, head of the Isabela incident management team, said the wreckage was found within a 20-kilometer (12 miles) radius of the Maconacon airport, where the Cessna 206 plane was meant to land on the day it crashed.