Nestor Mata (January 16, 1926 – April 12, 2018) was a Filipino journalist whose writing career spanned six decades.

[3] Nestor Mata graduated from the University of Santo Tomas where he obtained a degree in philosophy and letter.

[1] On March 16, 1957, President Magsaysay, accompanied by several government officials and journalists, flew to Cebu for a speaking engagement.

Thinking that there were probably people living not far away from where I lay moaning with pain, I made an effort to shout.

[3] Upon his arrival at a Cebu City hospital, Mata was able to dictate through a nurse a press dispatch to his newspaper.

"[3] Together with Vicente Villafranca, Mata penned One Came Back (1957), a memoir detailing the last moments of President Magsaysay and his own ordeal after surviving the plane crash.

[1] After surviving the crash, Mata continued writing for the Philippine Herald until it was closed down in 1972 following the declaration of Martial Law by then-President Ferdinand Marcos.

[7] From 1986 to 1999, Mata penned as a regular newspaper column for the Manila Standard and from 1999 until his death wrote for the Malaya.

[4] Mata died on April 12, 2018, at the Cardinal Santos Memorial Hospital in San Juan, Metro Manila.