THE Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) is now investigating the crash this morning, March 13, of a trainer aircraft owned by WCC Aviation Company, Inc., which left the flight instructor and student injured with second degree burns.

CAAP said in a statement that the plane, a Cessna C152, crashed immediately after takeoff from the Binalonan Airport and sustained a 40% burn from the cabin to half of the empennage. CAAP’s Aircraft Accident Investigators are looking into the cause of the accident.