Airport sources said two separate calls were made to the cargo terminal section of Cebu Pacific, informing personnel that bombs had been placed inside two of their DC-9 passenger aircraft.
The first threat was received at 4:30 a.m., involving Cebu Pacific Flight 5J-473 bound for Bacolod City. There were 37 passengers for the flight, which was supposed to take off at 5:10 a.m.
Fifteen minutes later, Cebu Pacific personnel received a second call, informing them that there was a bomb on Flight 5J-851 bound for Zamboanga City. The flight, which had 114 passengers, was scheduled to take off at 5:29 a.m.
Both calls were received before any of the passengers could board the two planes. Regional Aviation Security Office personnel with bomb-sniffing dogs checked both aircraft for bombs.
An hour-long search yielded no explosives. The first flight took off at 6:26 a.m. and the second at 6:48 a.m. – Sandy Araneta