SGT

Sgt4succsess SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Korean Air plane overshoots runway in the Philippines All 173 people on board KE631 reported safe as damaged plane shuts airport on Mactan Island in central Philippines. ADVERTISEMENT A Korean Air plane has overshot the runway while landing in bad weather in the central Philippines, but no injuries were reported among the 173 people on board, according to authorities. The incident took place on Mactan Island in central Cebu province late on Sunday. ADVERTISEMENT The 11 crew members and 162 passengers on Korean Air flight KE631 used emergency slides to escape from the damaged aircraft, officials and the airline said. ADVERTISEMENT “All passengers are safe and being attended by ground personnel,” the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines said in a statement. ADVERTISEMENT The plane remained stuck i

SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Four dead, 60 hurt as earthquake hits northern Philippines Shallow quake was measured at above 7 magnitude and collapsed buildings near the epicentre in northern Abra province. ADVERTISEMENT At least four people have died and 60 others were injured by a powerful earthquake in the northern Philippines, the country’s interior minister has said. The 8:43am (00:43 GMT) quake on Wednesday struck the mountainous and lightly populated province of Abra on Luzon, the country’s main and most populous island, causing small landslides and collapsing some houses. ADVERTISEMENT The tremors caused high-rise towers to shake more than 400km (249 miles) away in the capital, Manila, which is located on the south of the island. ADVERTISEMENT The earthquake was measured at a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 by the US Geological Survey (USGS), 7.2