Lone survivor's book on Magsaysay plane crash launched anew

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Later on, Nestor Mata wrote the memoir “One Came Back: The Magsaysay Tragedy” together with Vicente Villafranca.

March 17, 1957, was a tragic day for Filipinos after a plane crashed on Mt. Manunggal in Balamban, Cebu. The nation mourned because the aircraft—the presidential C-47 army plane named Mt. Pinatubo—had as passengers then President Ramon Magsaysay, government officials, the president’s staff, and journalists. Magsaysay, who was going back to Manila after speaking engagements in Cebu, and 25 others traveling with him died in the plane crash.

But that would be an arduous and long time, I thought to myself. But I said a prayer, ‘Please God, help him.’ …Just a few weeks after, he was slowly recovering. He was dictating this book!” she said.Valenzuela said she is hoping the book will be read by students—the young ones—“because not many people know many things about my father.

 

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