List of Philippine Airlines accidents and incidents

Since its foundation in 1941, Philippine Airlines has suffered more than 60 aircraft crashes, terrorist attacks and aircraft hijackings. Most of these accidents and incidents involved propeller-driven aircraft; and most occurred prior to the 1980s.

Incidents and accidents

Philippine Airlines Reported Incidents

Flight Designation	Date	Aircraft	Location	Description	Casualties
	October 1, 1946	Douglas DC-3	Davao Airport	The aircraft belly landed in an isolated swamp when the pilot had lost his bearings.	Fatalities: 0
	January 25, 1947	Douglas C-47	en route to Hong Kong-Kai Tak International Airport	Dakota PI-C12 crashed into the 1,723 feet (525 m) high Mount Parker at an altitude of 1,570 feet (480 m).	Fatalities: 4
	June 16, 1947	Douglas C-47	Near Cebu	Forced landed on the beach.	Fatalities: 0
	January 21, 1948	Douglas DC-3	Mandurriao Airport	Wheels-up landing.	Fatalities: 0
	April 20, 1948	Douglas C-47	Jolo Airport	Crashed on landing.	Fatalities: 0
	May 17, 1948	Douglas DC-3	Cebu Airport	Crashed on takeoff.	Fatalities: 0
	November 15, 1948	Douglas DC-6	Wake Island	Overran runway on landing.	Fatalities: 0
	May 7, 1949	Douglas C-47	En route Daet to Manila	Crashed into the sea. A time-bomb had been placed aboard the aircraft by two ex-convicts.	Fatalities: 13
N/A	January 24, 1950	Douglas DC-3	Iloilo City	The aircraft crashed en route to Mandurriao Airport.	Fatalities: 4
	March 10, 1952	Douglas DC-3	Cebu City	Struck the top of a house and crashed.	Fatalities: 3
N/A	March 30, 1952	Douglas DC-3	Baguio City	The aircraft, with registration number PI-C270 and departing from Loakan Airport, crashed upon takeoff.	Fatalities: 10
	October 15, 1953	Douglas C-47	Near Tuguegarao	Emergency landing in a rice paddy.	Fatalities: 0
N/A	January 14, 1954	Douglas DC-6	Rome, Italy	Crashed in Ciampino Airport while attempting to land in heavy turbulence, which led to an engine fire.	Fatalities: 16
	December 11, 1957	de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter	Labo Airport	Climbing through 75 feet (23 m) after takeoff, the Otter suddenly turned left and descended. The airplane hit two trees and caught fire.	Fatalities: 2
	July 14, 1960	Douglas C-47	En route to Cebu	Bad weather at the intended destination Zamboanga forced the crew of the PAL DC-3 to divert to Cebu. Fuel exhaustion then forced the crew to ditch their plane in shallow water, 40yds off the Mindanao shore.	Fatalities: 0
PR S26	November 23, 1960	Douglas DC-3	Manila	Crashed in Mount Baco while en route to Manila due to poor weather conditions.	Fatalities: 33
PR S85	December 22, 1960	Douglas DC-3	Cebu City	Crashed in Mactan-Cebu International Airport upon takeoff after a failure of the number one engine.	Fatalities: 28
PR 984	March 2, 1963	Douglas DC-3	Davao City	Crashed due to premature descent.	Fatalities: 27
PR 946	February 21, 1964	Douglas DC-3	Marawi City	Crashed due to pilot error upon landing approach.	Fatalities: 31
	May 21, 1964	de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter	En route from Siocon Airport to Zamboanga Airport	The pilot continued to fly VFR into unfavourable weather over the jagged shoreline with practically zero visibility due to heavy rain. There was a heavy squall at the time and at the scene of the accident. Weather conditions in the Western Mindanao area during the day of the accident were generally unfavourable for VFR flights. When the pilot took off from Siocon the ceiling at the destination, Zamboanga, was below IFR minima.	Fatalities: 11
	October 29, 1965	Douglas C-47	Near Manila	Struck a tree and crashed.	Fatalities: 1
PR 785	June 29, 1966	Douglas DC-3	Sablayan, Occidental Mindoro	Crashed due to crew error, severe turbulence and strong gusty winds.	Fatalities: 26
PR 345	February 28, 1967	Fokker F-27 Friendship	Cebu City	Crashed at Mactan-Cebu International Airport during landing due to an aft center of gravity condition resulting from improper loading.	Fatalities: 12
PR 385	July 6, 1967	Fokker F-27 Friendship	Bacolod City	Crashed into a mountain.	Fatalities: 21
	August 5, 1969	Hawker Siddeley HS 748	Near Zamboanga	A passenger set off an explosive device, probably gelignite, in the lavatory blowing himself out of the plane. The HS-748 landed safely.	Fatalities: 1
PR 158	September 12, 1969	BAC One-Eleven	Antipolo City	Crashed short on a hill upon landing approach.	Fatalities: 45
PR 215	April 21, 1970	Hawker Siddeley HS 748	Manila	Crashed in Nichols Field after a bomb exploded in the rear cargo section.	Fatalities: 36
	May 9, 1970	Fokker F-27	Maria Cristina Airport	Control was lost on take-off from runway 02 in almost zero visibility. The F-27 ran off the runway and rolled over stockpiles of sand and crossed the shoulder. The left wingtip struck a stockpile of rocks, causing the aircraft to cartwheel.	Fatalities: 1
	June 2, 1970	Fokker F-27	Near Roxas	A hand grenade exploded inside the passenger cabin at an altitude of 13,000 feet (4,000 m). A safe emergency landing was carried out at Roxas Airport with a 9 sq ft (0.84 m²) hole in the fuselage.	Fatalities: 1
	July 1, 1970	Fokker F-27	Dumaguete Airport	The F-27 overran the runway. Undercarriage and right wing were severely damaged.	Fatalities: 0
PR 463	November 28, 1972	Hawker Siddeley HS 748	Bislig City	Bounced and swerved on landing. The nosegear, wings and propellers were severely damaged.	None
N/A	February 3, 1975	Hawker Siddeley HS 748	Manila	Crashed in Nichols Field after a fire developed in the number two engine shortly after takeoff. It was also due to crew error in their inability to deal with a standard emergency.	Fatalities: 33
	February 25, 1975	Douglas DC-3	En route to Zamboanga	Hijacked on a flight from Pagadian City to Zamboanga. Both hijackers surrendered.^[1]	Fatalities: 0
	May 10, 1975	Hawker Siddeley HS 748	Manila International Airport	Tire burst during retraction.	Fatalities: 0
	June 3, 1975	BAC One-Eleven	Near Manila	During descent into Manila (at FL200) a bomb exploded in the right lavatory in the rear of the plane. The explosion caused a hole in the fuselage of 1.3m x 4m. A successful emergency landing was made.	Fatalities: 1
PR 421	April 18, 1977	Douglas DC-8	Tokyo, Japan	A DC-8-53 named "Champaca" (RP-C803) was written off after a landing accident at Haneda Airport.	None
	July 17, 1977	NAMC YS-11A	Mactan Island	The no. 1 engine ran down and temperature rose to 850deg. C. The aircraft, on base leg for an approach to Mactan, lost height and ditched. The airplane sank in 17 feet (5.2 m) of water.	Fatalities: 0
	August 17, 1978	BAC One-Eleven	En route from Cebu to Manila	An explosion in the rear left lavatory blew a hole in the fuselage. The aircraft was flying at FL240 at the time, on its way from Cebu to Manila.	Fatalities: 1
	July 11, 1982	Hawker Siddeley HS-748-209	Jolo Airport	The take-off was aborted at V1 when the pilots heard two unusual sounds from the no. 1 engine. The aircraft overran and came to rest against a wall and some vehicles.	Fatalities: 1
	August 4, 1984	BAC One-Eleven	Tacloban Airport	Overshot runway 36 by 100 feet (30 m) and ended up in the sea.	Fatalities: 0
PR 206	June 26, 1987	Hawker Siddeley HS 748	Itogon, Benguet	Crashed in Mount Ugu, fifteen kilometers south of Loakan Airport in Baguio City, due to poor visibility.	Fatalities: 50
PR 443	December 13, 1987	Short 360-300	Iligan City	Crashed near Maria Cristina Airport.	Fatalities: 15
N/A	July 21, 1989	BAC One-Eleven	Manila	Crashed at Ninoy Aquino International Airport when the aircraft overran the runway while landing, impacting several vehicles on an adjacent roadway.	Ground Fatalities: 8
PR 143	May 11, 1990	Boeing 737-300	Manila	EI-BZG suffered an explosion in the center fuel tank near the terminal of Ninoy Aquino International Airport while preparing for takeoff. The fire and smoke engulfed the aircraft before it could be completely evacuated. The explosion was similar to what happened to the ill-fated TWA Flight 800 six years later.	Fatalities: 8
PR 434	December 11, 1994	Boeing 747-200B	Minami Daito, Okinawa, Japan	A small bomb exploded underneath the seat (seat 26K) of Japanese businessman Haruki Ikegami. Ikegami died due to injuries sustained in the explosion, but none of the aircraft's other 293 passengers and crew were killed. The aircraft landed safely. Investigators later found that Ramzi Yousef planted the bomb there to test it out for a terrorist attack he was planning, Project Bojinka. The plan was foiled after an apartment fire in Manila led investigators to the laptop computer and disks containing the plan.	Fatalities: 1
PR 137	March 22, 1998	Airbus A320-200	Bacolod City	The aircraft overran the runway of Bacolod City Domestic Airport and crashed, plowing through homes near its end.	Ground Fatalities: 3
PR 475	October 26, 2007	Airbus A320-200	Butuan City	The aircraft, with 148 passengers on board, overshot the runway of Bancasi Airport.	Injuries: 19

Source: Philippine Airlines Accidents and Incidents, Aviation safety Network.

Hijackings

On December 30, 1952, after takeoff from Laoag International Airport, an armed man forced his way into the cockpit. He pulled out a .45-caliber pistol and demanded that the plane be brought to Xiamen, in mainland China. The captain took over control from the co-pilot and put the plane into a steep dive. The hijacker did not lose his balance, and shot and killed the captain, forcing the co-pilot to retake control. A flight attendant had come up to the cockpit to find out what was going on; as he knocked, the hijacker shot him twice through the cockpit door, killing him. The co-pilot changed course to China and continued at 6,000 feet (1,800 m) over the China Sea until two Chinese Nationalists T-6 Harvard planes showed up. Both planes chased the DC-3 and sprayed machine gun fire. The pilot managed to escape until he met with other Nationalist planes, who forced the flight to land at Quemoy. At Quemoy the hijacker was arrested.^[2]
On November 6, 1968, four hijackers demanded money.^[3]
On March 30, 1971, six hijackers attempted to hijack a Philippines Airlines BAC One-Eleven in Guangzhou, China.^[4]
On October 11, 1973, three hijackers surrendered after attempting to hijack a Philippines Airlines BAC One-Eleven in Hong Kong^[5]
On February 25, 1975, two hijackers attempted to hijack a Philippines Airlines BAC One-Eleven bound from Davao to Manila. They surrendered.^[6]
On October 7, 1975, one hijacker on a Philippines Airlines BAC One-Eleven bound from Davao to Manila demanded to be taken to Libya. He surrendered.^[7]
On April 7, 1976, a BAC 1-11 was hijacked by rebels for seven days, demanding money and the release of imprisoned rebels. The aircraft ended up in Benghazi, Libya.^[8]
On May 23, 1976, Philippine Airlines Flight 116, a BAC One-Eleven en route from Davao to Manila, was hijacked by rebels, demanding $375,000 and a plane to fly them to Libya. The hijackers subsequently detonated a hand grenade in the cabin, which burned the aircraft and killing 10 passengers and 3 hijackers. The remaining three hijackers were caught and sentenced to death.^[9]
On July 12, 1980, a hijacker of a Philippine Airlines flight from Manila to Cebu demanded money and wanted to be flown to Libya. The aircraft was stormed and the hijacker arrested.^[10]
On May 21, 1982, a man with a hand grenade, demanding better conditions for sugar workers and coconut farmers, held 109 people hostage aboard a Philippine Airlines jet bound from Bacolod to Cebu. The plane was on the ground at Cebu. The unidentified hijacker also demanded pay raises for teachers and back pay for veterans.^[11]^[12]
On May 25, 2000, Philippine Airlines Flight 812, en route from Davao to Manila, was hijacked by a man with marital problems. The hijacker was pushed out of the aircraft before arrival by a flight attendant and used a homemade parachute in escaping, with none of the other passengers and crew being injured or killed.^[13]

References

↑ "Hijacking description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 19 August 2010.
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↑ Man With a Grenade Seizes 109 on Jetliner in Philippines, The New York Times, May 21, 1982
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