Lumbia Airfield
The new airport serves Northern Mindanao, as well as its major cities, Iligan and Cagayan de Oro.In World War II, the Japanese controlled the airstrip, with the runway being extended by the use of forced labor.Additionally, its higher elevation above the city meant that many flights had to divert during rain or thick fog.[6] On February 2, 1998, Cebu Pacific Flight 387 from Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila to Cagayan de Oro, flown by a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 (registered as RP-C1507), crashed into Mount Sumagaya in Claveria, Misamis Oriental, killing all 99 passengers and 5 crew on board.The cause of the crash was blamed on a number of factors: pilot error, an unusual flight route (due to an unscheduled stopover in Tacloban to deliver aircraft parts for another Cebu Pacific DC-9), bad weather, and incorrect air charts.