TUGUEGARAO CITY: The airworthiness of planes in Northern Luzon has been receiving flak from villagers amid recent crashes, the latest was the crash in Apayao that killed two pilots on August 3 this year.

"The planes are decades already in existence. Every time we travel, we are 50-50 of landing alive. It is so hard for us who usually travel by plane from our coastal area to submit reports and attend meetings and other obligations in the mainland," Maconacon civil registrar Maria Teresa Oriarte said on Thursday.

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