Guard killed in NAIA-3 mishap

Bad luck continues to hound the controversial Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal III with the death of a security guard in a motorcycle accident yesterday.

NAIA-3 guard Menandro Larraga, of the Philippine Aviation Security Services Corp. security agency, and assigned at Gate 1 of the terminal, was reportedly making a dash for the comfort room on board a Honda motorcycle at around 11:30 a.m. when he lost control of the vehicle.

Corporal Diosdado Bonalos, Larraga’s supervisor, said the guard had merely borrowed the motorcycle from a colleague.

Larraga apparently lost control causing the bike’s front wheel to hit the airport’s arrival area cement curbside.

The impact sent the guard flying forward into a cement post.

He died instantly. — Rainier Allan Ronda