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Following the links you posted i came across this:
BT: Malaysian student pilot at Pinoy instructor, patay sa plane crash - Video - GMA News Online - The go-to site for Filipinos everywhere - Latest Philippine News
It does not matter if it was a Malaysian instructor or student anyways...what matters is that 2 of our fellow pilots have perished in this tragedy
RIP
Condolences to their families.
Wonder how the guys who knew them in OMNI are coping up...such a sick feeling when you see people off before a flight and they don't return back. Just hearing a Mayday call from a company aircraft on the radios was bad enough for me. Could not stop praying till they got back safely on ground.
Never flew 8839. During my days it was the good old RPC 1049,1051 (soloed on 1051) and the better (those days) 8832, 8831.