Remembering Magsaysay and newsman Mata who alone survived the plane crash

By Francisco S. Tatad

Mar 18, 2024 12:21 am

FIRST THINGS FIRST

ON March 17, 1957, a presidential plane crash at Mount Manunggal, the highest mountain peak in Cebu, Central Philippines, took the life of 50-year-old President Ramon del Fierro Magsaysay, the seventh president of the Philippines, and 25 others traveling with him.

It was a tragedy mourned by all Filipinos and Magsaysay's friends and admirers all over the world.

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