"The said C-130 was not overloaded. It was well within the operational limits and capacity when it left Laguindingan Airport with 96 passengers compared to its maximum capacity of 120 passengers," the AFP said in a statement on Tuesday evening.
The plane carried 84 Army troopers and 12 Air Force personnel. The crash killed at least 53 and injured 46 others. Also among the victims were non-passenger civilians, 3 of whom died, and 4 injured.The crash puzzled the military as the pilots of the doomed plane had hundreds of flight hours in their records, and the Sulu landing strip had no reported defects.
Earlier on Tuesday, the military confirmed retrieving the plane's black box or flight recorder, which contained the last conversations of the pilots and the C-130's flight data.
Overloaded ? apparently, its happening almost everywhere e.g. mechanical & motor bike, tricycle, jeepneys & buses esp in the province, mga pila sa private esp public offices & other gov't social services offices,etc.,atbp...
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