Additional responders began to climb Mayon Volcano on Tuesday, Feb. 28, to help bring down the remains of the four passengers of a Cessna plane that crashed near its crater on Saturday, Feb. 18.
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At 5 a.m., fresh batches of responders, totaling 62, started their trek, Camalig Mayor and incident commander Carlos Irwin Baldo Jr. said in a social media post. “The IMT still eyes to seek support from the air assets/helicopters if the skies clear. Helicopters are not advised to fly and hover above priority areas due to the unfavorable weather, which presently causes limited to zero visibility,” he said.
There is much difficulty in rope management “because of the volcano’s high-angle slopes,” he noted. “The Incident Management Team proposed 20 personnel per body as one of their alternative measures to relay down the bodies for 200 to 300 meters and will be hoisted as the team locates a safe landing zone.”
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