{"id":5130,"date":"2014-09-28T00:11:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T05:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=5130"},"modified":"2014-09-28T00:11:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T05:11:53","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-september-27-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=5130","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for September 27, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Dedicated Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n

On March 17, 1957, Philippine president Ramon Magsaysay was traveling from Cebu to Manila by plane, accompanied by several journalists and staffers. At about one-thirty A.M., the plane crashed and burned on a mountainside. Journalist Nestor Mata was sitting half-asleep near the president’s compartment and was knocked unconscious in the crash. He came to a few hours later on a steep, rocky hill, surrounded by burning wreckage.\u00a0Mata was in agony, covered in second- and third-degree burns. He called out “Mr. President! Mr. President!” but got no answer. He then called out “Pabling! Pabling!” searching for his colleague Pablo Bautista, but again received no response. However, a farmer heard his cries and found him. Mata was carried eighteen miles in a hammock to a hospital.\u00a0Upon arrival at the hospital, Mata enlisted the help of a nurse, dictating a press release to her that began with the terse line “President Magsaysay is dead.”\u00a0Nestor Mata was the sole survivor of the crash, which killed 24 people. He later wrote a book about the experience called “One Came Back.” He is still alive today.<\/p>\n

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The corpse of Ramon Magsaysay at the crash site.<\/p><\/div>\n

Culled from: Wikipedia
\nSubmitted by: Aimee<\/a><\/p>\n

That’s real professionalism! – Aimee<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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