aren't enough and now they're asking for DOST's technological efforts and even from US embassy to search for the missing plane.

US Embassy? What assets are they going to give, more choppers? PhilSA is reportedly using their SAR satellite on-loan to help with the search effort, and that is a game-changer.

But at some point, we need to accept that the mission is no longer for Search-and-Rescue and is now just a reconnaissance exercise, just looking for the wreckage. There's no activated ELT from the Cessna, the clue just being the last triangulated phone signal before the crash, and a farmer saying that he say a plane flying into the Sierra Madre, with the thick jungle hiding the crash site because it isn't that big of a plane to burn through to show anyway.

The same that it can make a difference if the president would also say something about it, just like how he made a speech saying the Philippines is ready to provide aid in Turkey and Syria.

The president made a statement offering his condolences and help to the Turkish government because it was customary to do so, and they requested every help they can get because of the scale of the disaster. The Philippine delegation was sent to fulfill that request because the earthquake in Turkey has devolved into a humanitarian crisis, with millions of people affected, hundreds of thousands displaced and hundreds still trapped in the rubbles of their cities.

The crashed Cessna is an internal matter, and the persons that should be making their press conferences are the persons in-charge of the search and rescue effort, not the President. There is no humanitarian crisis, not a mass casualty event that was sparked with the plane crashing, and everyone in the plane is probably dead by now. It might seem harsh, but the magnitude of the disaster to compare millions of people displaced and thousands dead to six persons dead is just too big of a difference, might even be a disservice to the plight of the Turkish and Syrian people to be compared.