By Kit Bagaipo
www.boholchronicle.comThe Air Transportation Office (ATO) will investigate into the cause of another crash of a four-seater Cessna plane in Inabanga town last Sunday.
Meanwhile, residents and local officials have repeatedly expressed alarm over
the many aircraft accidents here especially those that occur during landing maneuvers at the city airport which is a residential area.
Most of the accidents were blamed on engine trouble, however, the aircrafts were owned by flying schools that were being flown by student-pilots.
Around 2 p.m. last Sunday, the single-engine Cessna 152 which originated from Mactan, Cebu, crashed into an abandoned pond in barangay U-og, Inabanga.
The passengers, two of whom are Japanese nationals, came out of the aircraft unharmed but hurriedly left the scene.
The plane's captain was identified as Takeshi Ishida while his two passengers were Fujio Taguchi and Ursula Gabucan. The three left for Cebu immediately after the accident aboard another private plane.
Ishida is reportedly owner of Topflight Airways Inc., a flying school based in Mactan and the president of the Japanese Association in Cebu.
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