{"id":54607,"date":"2015-07-07T14:32:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T06:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=54607"},"modified":"2015-07-07T16:46:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T08:46:09","slug":"caap-chopper-did-not-provide-flight-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/07\/caap-chopper-did-not-provide-flight-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"CAAP: Chopper did not provide flight plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14220\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14220\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/helicopter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14220\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/helicopter-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/helicopter-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/helicopter.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Civil Aviation Authorities of the Philippines (CAAP) said the pilot of the helicopter that carried billionaire and hotel owner\u00a0 Archimedes \u201cArchie\u201d King did not provide a flight plan before taking off from Puerto Galera.<\/p>\n<p>Capt. Felicisimo Taborlupa Jr. failed to inform\u00a0authorities about their return trip to Manila.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegulations require pilots to provide the CAAP a flight plan so that it can monitor its movement. In cases of emergency, the CAAP will know where to look,\u201d\u00a0CAAP spokesman Eric Apolonio yesterday said.<\/p>\n<p>Apolonio said the flight plan should have allowed them to monitor the helicopter and advise them of the weather disturbances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they had submitted a flight plan, the CAAP would have advised the pilot to abort the flight,\u201d Apolonio said.<\/p>\n<p>Taburlopa \u00a0was flying the Augusta 109E with Registry No. RP-C2726when it crashed in a forested area in\u00a0Barangay (village) Pinagkaisahan in Cuenca town around 12:45 p.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Following the thick fog and the heavy rains, the helicopter nose-dived in the forested area killing\u00a0Taborlupa and leaving King seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>King, who was seated beside the pilot when the accident happened, later died of severe wounds and fractures at a hospital in Cuenca.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the passengers,\u00a0King\u2019s wife, Angeles, Inquirer Lifestyle columnist Anton San Diego, bag designer Tina Maristela-Ocampo and her husband, Ricco Ocampo, and couple Christopher and Patricia Chilip, who were\u00a0seated at the back, meanwhile, survived the accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Civil Aviation Authorities of the Philippines (CAAP) said the pilot of the helicopter that carried billionaire and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":14220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}