Divers resume retrieval of pilots in Robredo plane crash

Divers resumed early Wednesday their efforts to retrieve the bodies of the pilot and co-pilot who perished along with Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo when their Piper Seneca plane crashed off Masbate last Saturday.

 

Task Force Kalihim head Major General Eduardo del Rosario voiced hopes they can recover the bodies before noon, radio dzBB's Benjie Liwanag Jr. reported. Retrieval operations were suspended Tuesday afternoon after a German volunteer diver suffered what was suspected to be decompression sickness. The technical diver, trained to go deeper than recreational divers, is recovering.

 

Still to be retrieved are the bodies of pilot Captain Jessup Bahinting and co-pilot Kshitiz Chand.

 

 

 

The plane was heading for Naga from Cebu when it crashed off Masbate.

 

Several divers volunteered their services to help in the search operations for Robredo and the two pilots. –KG/HS, GMA News