Remains of PNP fatality in US air collision back home

Arrival honors are performed for Police Colonel Pergentino “Bong” Malabed Jr. at NAIA. He died in a collision between an airplane and a helicopter in the United States last month. (Photo from PNP PIO)

The remains of Police Col. Pergentino Malabed Jr., chief of the Philippine National Police Supply Management Division, arrived in the Philippines on Friday. The decorated police officer died on Jan. 29 when a passenger jet he was in collided with a US Army helicopter and crashed at Washington’s Potomac River. He will be taken to his final resting place at the Memorial Gardens in Sta. Rosa City, Laguna, on Feb. 27. —Nestor Corrales