The 72-seater RPC 8993 plane piloted by Captain Vicente Gazo undershot Runway 06 when it landed at 6:58 a.m., Tarazona said, quoting from a report of the Air Transportation Office (ATO) in Caticlan which caused the airstrip to be closed for the whole day.
One passenger, Rowena Versoza, 40, suffered broken bones and a cut to the head. She was taken for treatment at the Aklan Baptist Hospital in Caticlan along with the other injured, said Inspector Lory Tarazona, police chief of Malay town, said in a phone interview.
Three of the injured were airport personnel who were hit by debris when the plane crashed against the concrete perimeter fence.
The plane left Manila around 6:10 a.m., carrying 22 passengers including two children bound for Boracay and with three crewmembers.
The passengers included two Korean and two German tourists.
News source: INQ7===
My cousin's flight was moved to a later time because of a family gathering in the morning! Thank God for that or else they would have been included in the list of injured passengers from that Zest Air flight!
