SOUTH COTABATO, Philippines — Four people, two of them foreigners, were injured in a helicopter crash in Tupi town at 9:57 a.m. Wednesday. The pilot of the ill-fated helicopter, Captain Danny Dennis Figueroa, was also injured. Gonzalez said the Raven 2 chopper is owned by the LionAir Incorporated, operator of small helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft for charter. The three passengers of Figueroa, all executives of the transnational fruit firm Dole-Stanfilco Inc., chartered helicopter for an inspection tour of orchard plantations at the border of South Cotabato’s Polomolok and Tupi towns. The incident preceded the May 14 crash in T’boli, South Cotabato of a helicopter spraying chemicals on a Cavendish banana farm in a hinterland in the municipality, hurting its pilot, Captain Reynaldo Acosta.

Source: Philippine Star June 06, 2018 11:15 UTC