Cork airport crash team did not assist documentary

The team which investigated the Cork Airport plane crash has declined to co-operate with the makers of a major documentary on the disaster, due to air tonight, out of respect for the survivors and victims’ families.

Cork airport crash team did not assist documentary

The Department of Transport’s Air Accident Investigation Unit (AAIU) said it felt it was “not appropriate” for its inspectors to feature in, or to assist in the making of National Geographic’s Air Crash Investigation programme focusing on the 2011 crash so soon after the tragedy.

“It is too soon and too sensitive. And our report speaks for itself,” said an AAIU spokesman.

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