Photo from Recto Mercene's Facebook page MANILA - Veteran photojournalist and reporter Recto Mercene passed away on October 2, his family announced. He was 77. Mercene had been admitted to the Asian Hospital in Alabang since September 7 after suffering a fall. According to an obituary posted by his publication, BusinessMirror, he was being prepared for release from confinement so he can get palliative care at home after doctors detected cancer spreading in his bone marrow. He died peacefully in his sleep at 3 p.m. on Saturday. "The man who spent nearly six decades soaring and roaming, in various incarnations of a traveler - first, as private pilot and air traffic controller, then as aviation reporter and photojournalist, and then as diplomatic and foreign affairs reporter - has gone on to the sky with no limits, where air traffic needs no controls and airplanes never have to take off or land," BusinessMirror editor-in-chief Lourdes Fernandez penned in Mercene's obitua