Philippine Air Lines Flight 158 was a
Philippine Air Lines
Philippine Airlines (PAL), a trade name of PAL Holdings, Inc. ( PSEPAL (Philippine Air Lines until 1970), is the flag carrier airline of the Philippines. Headquartered at the PNB Financial Center in Pasay, the airline was founded in 1941 and i ...
flight from
Mactan–Cebu International Airport
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to
Manila International Airport
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in
Manila
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which crashed on 12 September 1969. The aircraft, a
BAC One-Eleven, struck a mango tree on the hill in suburban Kula-ike,
Antipolo
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, east of its destination while on a
VOR approach to runway 24. Of the 42 passengers and five crew members on board, only one passenger and one flight attendant survived.
It was the deadliest aviation accident in the Philippines involving commercial aircraft until the crash of
Philippine Airlines Flight 206 in 1987 and the deadliest involving a BAC One-Eleven until it was surpassed by
Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 9 in 1977.
Aircraft
The aircraft involved was a
BAC One-Eleven Series 400 and made its first flight in 1966. It was delivered to
Philippine Airlines
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that same year, having over 7,000 airframe hours at the time of the crash.
Causes
The aircraft crashed due to high turbulence in a heavy rainstorm along with poor visibility at night.
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