- ACCIDENT DETAILS
Date: May 07, 1949
Time: 16:00
Location: Sibuyan Sea, off the Philippine island of Elalat
Operator: Philippine Air Lines
Flight #: ?
Route: Daet - Manila
AC Type: Douglas DC-3
Registration: PI-C-98
cn / ln: 16743/33491
Aboard: 13   (passengers:10  crew:3)
Fatalities: 13   (passengers:10  crew:3)
Ground: 0
Summary: The plane was on a flight from Daet, Camarines to Manila when it crashed after experiencing a violent explosion in the tail of the aircraft. Two ex-convicts confessed to planting a time bomb aboard the flight in order to kill the husband of a woman involved with another man.
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