Friday, September 12, 2008 (Philippines)

Members of militant groups in designers' sunglasses commemorate the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center bombing, denouncing the presence of US military servicemen in Mindanao. (Sun.Star Davao/Toto Lozano) TASK Force C-130 is looking into the possibility of sending technical divers to the sunken Philippine Air Force (PAF) C-130 Hercules Lockheed aircraft at the bottom of the Davao Gulf in order to determine what caused the 37-year-old aircraft to crash. As floating the aircraft seemed to be an impossible task with the limited sophisticated technology and equipment that the PAF and the Philippine Navy have, the next best thing is to send technical divers to the site and retrieve some pieces of the aircraft to determine the cause of the crash. Get updates and join Dabawenyos Kadayawan 2008 celebration [full story]