Manila (dpa) – A chartered medical evacuation flight crashed during take off in the Philippines on Sunday, killing eight people, airport officials said.

The West Wind 24 aircraft was taking off from Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport when it burst into flames and crashed, the Manila International Airport Authority said in a statement.

“The flight, which was on a med-evac mission to Haneda, Japan, was carrying two passengers and six crew members,” the statement said.

“Unfortunately, no passenger survived the accident,” it added.

According to an unconfirmed flight manifest, the two passengers were a 63-year-old Canadian man and a 58-year-old Filipino-American woman.

The six Filipinos were three pilots, a flight mechanic, a doctor and a nurse.

———

©2020 Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH (Hamburg, Germany)

Visit Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH (Hamburg, Germany) at www.dpa.de/English.82.0.html

Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.