Major General Jess Fajardo, Air Chief-of-Staff, and Colonel Cris Tumanda, commander of the Philippine Air Force Tactical Operation Group, lead the military honor as soldiers carry the coffins of those who died in a Nomad plane crash in Cotabato City in Mindanao. Those who were killed are Major General Mario Butch Lacson, commander of the 3rd Air Division; air force pilots Captain Genaro Gaylord Ordonio and First Lieutenant Angelica Valdez, Major Prisco Tacuboy, Lieutenant Alexander Ian Lipait and Staff Sergeants Ronaldo Mejia, Ianne Christy Marose Llamera and Jeffrey Gozon. (Mindanao Examiner Photo / Mark Navales)MAGUINDANAO, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / January 31, 2010) – The Philippine military honored a senior air force commander and seven other who perished in a plane crash in Mindanao.
Major Randolph Cabangbang, a regional military spokesman, said those killed were Major General Mario Butch Lacson, commander of the 3rd Air Division in Zamboanga City; air force pilots Captain Genaro Gaylord Ordonio and First Lieutenant Angelica Valdez, Major Prisco Tacuboy, Lieutenant Alexander Ian Lipait and Staff Sergeants Ronaldo Mejia, Ianne Christy Marose Llamera and Jeffrey Gozon.
Cabangbang said the plane crashed on a village in Cotabato City two minutes after it took off at around 11:35 a.m. Thursday at a military base in Maguindanao province.
Lacson’s group came from a conference in Davao City and was returning to Zamboanga City, but their plane had a brief stopped at an air force base in Maguindanao’s Awang town. (Mark Navales)
Major Randolph Cabangbang, a regional military spokesman, said those killed were Major General Mario Butch Lacson, commander of the 3rd Air Division in Zamboanga City; air force pilots Captain Genaro Gaylord Ordonio and First Lieutenant Angelica Valdez, Major Prisco Tacuboy, Lieutenant Alexander Ian Lipait and Staff Sergeants Ronaldo Mejia, Ianne Christy Marose Llamera and Jeffrey Gozon.
Cabangbang said the plane crashed on a village in Cotabato City two minutes after it took off at around 11:35 a.m. Thursday at a military base in Maguindanao province.
Lacson’s group came from a conference in Davao City and was returning to Zamboanga City, but their plane had a brief stopped at an air force base in Maguindanao’s Awang town. (Mark Navales)
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