PHIVOLCS Scientists Die in Helicopter Crash
The following is an e-mail I received today from a volcano listserv. My thoughts and prayers go out to their friends and family.
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PHIVOLCS Scientists and PHIVOLCS former director died in a helicopter crash
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From: Raymond Patrick R. Maximo
Message sent on 04/28/05 at 1:47am US Pacific Standard Time
28 April 2005
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) has
received official reports that the PHIVOLCS contingent aboard the helicopter
that crashed all have died. The PHIVOLCS contingent includes:
     Name           Position          Age
1.    Dr. Jessie A. Daligdig  Associate Scientist, DOST  44 years old
2.    Dr. Norman M. Tungol   Chief SRS, GGRDD      40 years old
3.    Mr. Dindo V. Javier   SR Analyst,         41 years old
4.    Mr. Orlando S. Abengoza SR Assistant        49 years old
This contingent was together with former PHIVOLCS Director Raymundo S.
Punongbayan, governor of the Philippine National Red Cross (PNRC) and local
coordinator of Earthquake and Megacities Initiative (EMI), as part of an
investigation team for the assessment of natural hazards in Dingalan, Aurora
and Gabaldon, Nueva Ecija for the identification of possible safe sites for
the resettlement /rehabilitation of communities affected by the 2004
typhoons.
The institute is one with the grief and sorrow of their respective family
members and mourns this great loss to the Philippine scientific community.
PHIVOLCS-DOST
