Wreckage of Cessna plane missing for two days found in forest with pilot and passenger dead

Search teams have found the wreckage of a Cessna aircraft missing for two days, with the pilot and his passenger dead in a forest in the Philippines.

The two-seater aircraft with registration number RP-C8958 departed Laoag International Airport in Ilocos province on a training flight at 12:16 pm on August 1. It was scheduled to land at 3:16 pm at the Tuguegarao Airport in Cagayan province around 300 kilometres away but never arrived.