Philippine Airlines Flight 812
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Philippine Airlines Flight 812 was a scheduled passenger flight from Francisco Bangoy International Airport in Davao City to Ninoy Aquino International Airport near Manila. On May 25, 2000, an Airbus A330-301 operating on the route was hijacked by a man named Augusto Lacandula just before the airplane was about to land. The flight carried 278 passengers and 13 crew members.
The hijacker demanded the passengers to place their valuables in a bag before he commanded the pilot to descend and depressurize the aircraft so that he could escape by a homemade parachute made of nylon with a curtain sash for a ripcord. Before he was about to jump, he panicked and clung to the rear door. Later, a male flight attendant pushed him out of the plane.
On the Friday after the hijacking, the hijacker was found dead in the village of Llabac, in Real, Quezon, about 70 kilometers southeast of Manila, near the border with Laguna province.
Lacandula, wearing a ski mask and swimming goggles, jumped out of the plane while it was flying at an altitude of 1,800 meters over Antipolo, Rizal, after robbing the passengers of their valuables.
