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Cebu Airport, also known as Mactan-Cebu International Airport, is a major international airport in the Visayas Islands of the Philippines. It covers an area of 797 hectares and the passenger terminal can accommodate 4.5 million passengers. Two major aviation accidents have occurred here.
On December 11, 1994, Philippine Airlines Flight 434 flew from Manila to Narita, Japan, stopping in Cebu. A bomb exploded suddenly on the route from Cebu to Japan, killing one Japanese passenger and surviving the remaining 292 people on board.
On October 23, 2022, Korean Air Flight 631, a flight from Incheon, South Korea to Cebu, failed to land for the first time at 22:12 due to bad weather and low visibility at the airport. It attempted a second landing at 22:26, but gave up shortly after crossing the runway entrance. It ran off the runway during the third attempt to land at 22:08. A total of 173 passengers and crew members on board were not injured.
The aircraft (HL7525) was subsequently scrapped due to severe damage, with the paint and airline logo obliterated. The wreckage, which is the one in Figure 1, was photographed very clearly when it landed.