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Relief Operations for Northern Mindanao!!!

Decided not to watch news since morning.

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Meanwhile in the Philippines…

Waves as high as the coconut trees are currently battering Manila Bay as Typhoon Pedring (International name: Nesat) unleashes its fury with maximum sustained winds of 150 kph.

Although, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) assured that Typhoon Pedring will not be like Ondoy. Two years ago, Tropical Storm Ondoy had wreaked havoc over the capital city of Manila, claiming a hundred lives and displacing at least a hundred thousand people.

(Credit goes to the owner of the photo. Just got it from Twitter)

25 confirmed dead from last night’s flood

What really happened last night:

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Saw these pictures at Twitter. Marikina River taken at around 5:30 PM. Water spilling over into the road near Riverbanks Mall, Marikina.

This was taken around 5:13 PM.

Guys, be safe! :(

Pinatubo

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In memory of Air Philippines Flight 541 (2P-541) | April 19, 2000. Country’s worst air disaster.

Synopsis:

The Air Philippines Flight 541 was the worst Philippine air disaster which claimed the lives of 124 passengers and 7 crew members. The 32-year old Boeing 737-200 aircraft, previously owned by Southwest Airlines crashed on a coconut plantation near the mountainous region of Samal Island, Davao Oriental while preparing for its final approach to Davao International Airport’s RWY 23.

Through tedious data gathering, we now reveal what really went wrong during the last few minutes of the doomed Air Philippines Flight 541 flight.

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5:21 am.

Air Philippines Flight 541 was given clearance by Manila Tower to depart at RWY 13. The Manila-Davao flight will take an hour and forty minutes.

6:45 am.

As the plane approaches Davao, it lines up for RWY (runway) 05 through ILS (Instrument Landing System) approach. As the plane continues its final approach, air traffic controllers from the Davao Tower contact Flight 541 to discontinue ILS approach for RWY 05 due to runway traffic. Philippine Airlines PR 809 (Airbus A330-300) has just arrived from Manila and the aircraft hasn’t vacated the runway yet.

To prevent a deadly collision on the runway, air traffic controllers cleared Air Philippines Flight 541 for a VOR/DME approach in the opposite direction of the airport’s runway, which is RWY 23.

The plane is now over the Samal Island. The plane makes a 45 degree turn, vectoring for final approach on DIA’s RWY 23.

7:01 am.

The pilot reports that they are 7 miles off RWY 23. This is the last radio contact between Davao Tower and 2P-541. 

7:03 am.

Air traffic controllers try to clear the plane to land. Unfortunately, the plane smashed on a coconut plantation in Mt. Kalangan, Sitio Camanlangan in Barangay San Isidro, Samal Island. The accident site was around 500 feet above sea level. At this point, the plane should have been a thousand feet higher.

The CVR/FDR transcript was never released in public. Investigators have speculated pilot error as the source of the plane crash. Also, low cloud cover were reported by the air traffic controllers during the incident.

Next week, on March 27, 2011, we will commemorate the 34th anniversary of the world’s worst air disaster, the Tenerife Airport disaster.

The Tenerife airport disaster in 1977 was a collision involving two Boeing 747 passenger aircraft on the runway of Los Rodeos Airport (now known as Tenerife North Airport) on the Spanish island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands. With 583 fatalities, the crash remains the deadliest accident in aviation history. All 248 aboard the fully-fuelled KLM Flight 4805 were killed. There were also 335 fatalities and 61 survivors from Pan Am Flight 1736, which was struck along its spine by the KLM’s landing gear, under-belly and four engines. Rescue crews were unaware for over 20 minutes that the Pan Am aircraft was also involved in the accident, because of the heavy fog and the separation of the crippled aircraft following the collision.

The collision took place on March 27, 1977, at 17:06:56 local time. The aircraft were operating as Pan Am Flight 1736 (the Clipper Victor) under the command of Captain Victor Grubbs, and KLM Flight 4805 (the Rijn) under the command of Captain Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten. Taking off in heavy fog on the airport’s only runway, the KLM flight crashed into the top of the Pan Am aircraft backtaxiing in the opposite direction. The Pan Am had followed the backtaxiing of the KLM aircraft, under the direction of air traffic control, and the KLM’s flight crew had been aware of Pan Am backtaxiing behind them on the same runway. Despite lack of visual confirmation due to the fog the KLM captain thought that Pan Am had cleared the runway and so attempted to take off without further clearance to do so. Several other key factors contributed to the accident.

You can watch this documentary, Crash of the Century on YouTube. Comes with 9 parts. Click this if you want to watch the first part.

A magnitude 8.9 earthquake hits Japan’s northeastern coast, unleashing a 13-foot (4-meter) tsunami that swept boats, cars, buildings and tons of debris miles inland.

This is a video footage recorded this afternoon, minutes after the strong quake. The city of Sendai (north of Tokyo) at Miyagi Prefecture was badly hit by a 13-foot tsunami.

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Anonymous asked: hi. nagtake ako ng nmat kanina and middle initial lang nilagay ko dun sa answer sheet ng part 1 (fortunately, middle name na yung nilagay ko sa part 2). i mean, hndi ko nilagay yung buong middle name ko ( yes, hndi ako nagbasa at nakinig sa examiner) . so, meron bang masamang effect yun ?? :)

Oh nose! If you didn’t follow the simple instruction, minus 10 ka na (overall percentile rank). You need to write a letter to CEM.

JOKE. I don’t know. In the first place you should be listening to the proctor kanina.

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