Roxas City - Manila

On April 26, 1987 at 12:00 AM, Roxas City - Manila experienced a crash involving Curtiss C-46 Commando, operated by OASIS - Orient Air System %26 Integrated Services, with the event recorded near Roxas City Capiz.

The flight was categorized as cargo and the reported phase was flight at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

2 people were known to be on board, 2 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. Few minutes after takeoff from Roxas City Airport, the crew encountered engine problems and lost control of the airplane that crashed in the Sibuyan Sea, about 22 km off the north coast of the Panay Island. Both pilots were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration RP-C189, MSN 33421, year of manufacture 1945.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 11.5762°, 122.7571°.