Tuguegarao, Philippines - Police say 13 people have narrowly escaped injury after their light plane developed engine trouble and landed on a river in the northern Philippines.
Police Senior Superintendent Mao Aplasca says the passenger plane went down Monday on the Cagayan River midway on a trip from the country's northernmost province of Batanes to Tuguegarao city in nearby Cagayan province.
Aplasca says the pilots managed to make an emergency landing on a shallow portion of the river, where the plane got partially submerged.
He says the stunned passengers and pilots stood on or clung to the aircraft's wings before being helped to safety by villagers and police. - Sapa-AP