MANILA, Philippines — The wreckage of a small airplane that went lacking in late January within the northeastern Philippines has been discovered, ending weeks of thriller about its whereabouts.

The downed Cessna 206 airplane was noticed Thursday round 11 a.m native time in Isabela Province, based on native authorities. Neither the pilot, nor any of the six passengers have been discovered alive, Constante Foronda, head of the Isabela Incident Management Team mentioned.

“No survivors,” he advised reporters at a press conference. “We delayed this briefing until all the relatives of the passengers and the pilot have been informed.”

A spokesman for the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office in Divilacan, the city in Isabela Province close to the place the wreckage was discovered, additionally advised reporters that components of the plan have been scattered in regards to the space and clothes — assumed to be from the passengers — hung from the bushes.

Local media have previously reported that pilot Capt. Eleazar Mark Joven and passengers Xam Siguerra, 10; Rom Joshtle Manaday, 16; Mark Eiron Siguerra, 21; Val Kamatoy, 34; and Josefa Perla Espana, 59, have been aboard the airplane.

Officials say they can not presently give a definitive reply about what introduced the airplane down, as they might want to additional examine the wreckage. They say the crash web site is situated in a mountainous space and that it may take as much as three days to recuperate the stays.

The Cessna took off on January 24 from Cauayan airport, a small airport additionally situated in Isabela Province, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines told local media. The airplane was presupposed to fly throughout the Sierra Madre mountains and land solely about 45 miles away at Maconacon Airport — however by no means made it.

Authorities say the airplane failed to reply about half an hour after it was presupposed to land.

What adopted was an intense weekslong search by way of mountainous terrain and dangerous climate that concerned volunteers, native search and rescue personnel, scent-tracking canine in addition to the police and the navy.

The Cessna 206 is a single-engine airplane with a 36-foot wingspan and a size of just a little over 28 toes, based on GlobalAir.com. It can maintain as much as 5 passengers and 1 crew member and is used for each business and personal flights, in addition to pilot coaching.

Cessna is an American model headquartered in Wichita, Kansas.

The discovery of the Cessna in Isabela Province comes only a week after the stays of 4 passengers and the crew of a Cessna 340 were recovered close to the Mayon Volcano in Bicol, Philippines.