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The Philippine Civil Aviation Authority announced today the loss of contact with a medical helicopter carrying five people to the western Philippine province of Palawan.
The Associated Press quoted Eric Apollonio, a spokesman for the Philippine Civil Aviation Authority, as saying: “A medical helicopter carrying a pilot and a patient, in addition to three escorts, was heading to a hospital in the town of Brook Point in Palawan Province. Deployment of ships along the coastal strip with the participation of a helicopter to search for the missing aircraft.
In recent weeks, the Philippines has been subjected to a series of aviation accidents, the latest of which was the crash of a Cessna 340 plane carrying a Filipino crew, in addition to consultants from the Australian Energy Company, in Albay Province, southeast of the capital, Manila, on the eighteenth of last month.
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