A preliminary report, due to be released within weeks, will collate the facts of the Cork plane crash in which six people died, but in-depth analysis of the crash will take months, a spokesman for the investigation team has said.

The father of a survivor of the Cork plane crash has been speaking about how his son managed to free himself from the wreckage.

An amphibious plane carrying former US Republican Senator Ted Stevens crashed into a remote mountainside during a fishing trip, killing Alaska's most beloved political figure and four others and stranding the survivors on a rocky, brush-covered slope overnight.