Magsaysay Jr. was born in Manila to former President Ramon Magsaysay and Luz Banzon . He was 15 when his father was elected president and was 18 when his father died in a plane crash in Cebu . He graduated in De La Salle College in Manila where he earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering . He pursued post-graduate studies in 1962 at Harvard School of Business Administration in Boston , Massachusetts , and spent another year in New York University Graduate School of Business Administration . In 1960 he worked as an engineer trainee at Procter and Gamble Philippines . From 1961 to 1962 , he was a supervising engineer for operations for Caltex Philippines
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1957 Cebu Douglas C-47 crash
Ramon Magsaysay Jr.