A small ambulance plane crashed near the Philippines capital Manila on Sunday and killed all the nine people on board. The air crash at Calamba city sent the aircraft in flames, officials said.

The incident at a resort area near was in Pansol village in Laguna province under the foothills of Mount Makiling.

Videos of the crashed plane posted on social media showed emergency vehicles rushing toward a building engulfed in fierce flames in Calamba City. Officials were seen urging crowds to move away for their safety.

According to the Philippines news, the bodies were retrieved by Police and rescuers. Two people who were injured on the ground have been hospitalized.

Among those killed were two pilots, a doctor, two nurses, a patient, his wife, and two others, police said.

The patient was from New Zealand

According to New Zealand news sources, the patient killed in the crash was from the Philippines and his name was Tom. His wife Erma Carr also died. The couple belonged to New Zealand and lived in Ruakaka, south of Whang ā rei.

Erma Carr was a native of the Philippines and the family was active in many events held by the Whang ā rei Filipino Society.

Commenting on the accident of King Air 350 light aircraft, and the toll, Emergency operations official Jeffrey Rodriguez told AFP that no one seemed to have survived the crash.

“We assume that all confirmed passengers of this plane are dead.”

According to Eric Apolonio, a spokesman of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) the light plane was on a medical evacuation mission from Dipolog City in Zamboanga del Norte and was expected to land in Manila.

But the plane disappeared from the radar track above Laguna, 37 miles south of Manila.

The fire caused by the crash at the resort site was declared under control at 4:45 pm.

The CAAP updated that it sent air crash investigation and inquiry board investigators to the crash site.

Videos showed flames and black smoke billowing from the resort compound.

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More deaths on the ground seemed to have been averted as the crash happened during a lean season at the resort town.

Being the monsoon season fewer people visit Pansol’s resorts compared to the heavy rush of summer months until June as part of Philippines tourism.

In a similar incident, 10 people were killed on March 2018 when a plane went down after in Plaridel town, near Manila and killed all those on the aircraft besides another four on the ground.

Small planes hop between the Philippines numerous islands and the incident involving crashes of light aircraft is quite common.

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