Originally Posted by
Lake1952
They were transporting medical supplies to Japan.
Other reports are that it was a medevac flight for a Canadian with an American companion.
This may be the same outfit that had the King Air 350 medevac crash last September with 9 fatalities.
A medical evacuation plane has exploded in a ball of flames during take-off in the Philippine capital, killing all eight passengers and crew on board, officials say.
The Lion Air plane was bound from Manila to Haneda, Japan, and burst into flames at the end of the runway about 8pm local time, Manila's main airport said.
Vidoe footage showed a huge plume of smoke rising into the night sky as fire crews doused the fuselage with foam.
The twin-jet West Wind 24 was carrying three medical personnel, three flight crew, a patient and a companion, Richard Gordon, a senator and head of the Philippine Red Cross, said on Twitter.
"Unfortunately, no passenger survived the accident," the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) said in a statement.
https://www.news.com.au/world/breaki...ac66b37f8e49f6
From a news report on the September 2019 King Air crash:
A New Zealand couple was among nine people killed in a small plane that was conducting a medical airlift when it crashed and exploded in flames at a resort south of Manila on Sunday, Philippine authorities say.
Philippine authorities identified the couple as Tom Carr and Erma Carr, a Filipina with New Zealand citizenship.
The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) said it was investigating why the Beechcraft King Air plane carrying the couple and seven Filipinos, including a medical team, crashed on Sunday in Pansol village in Laguna province as it approached its destination, Manila.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-...pines/11472324