Hundreds of mourners gathered to pay their respects to a much loved son, brother, uncle and friend who died in an air crash in Wexford three days ago.

The two men who were killed in the crash have been named locally as Peter Tawse, 61, from Old Ross in Co Wexford, and 58-year-old John Finnan from Naas in Co Kildare.

A US aviation giant has been advised to review the design of a steering pin mechanism on the nose wheel of a popular business jet following an investigation into an aborted take-off at Cork Airport last year.

Shannon Airport has temporarily suspended all flights following an incident involving a Boeing 767 aircraft.

A preliminary investigation into a plane crash, that resulted in the deaths of two men in Kildare, shows it rapidly lost height and hit the ground 30 seconds later.

His daughter Abby, whose birthday party they were marking, turns 18 tomorrow and as a result, her much-loved father’s funeral will take place after that according to close family members.

Funeral arrangements for a father-of-three who died when the light aircraft he was piloting crashed into electricity cables are being finalised.

Latest: A father-of-three who was killed following a light aircraft accident in Kilkenny has been named locally.

An investigation has been launched into the cause of a paramotor crash in Co Clare in which one man was injured.

Latest: No distress signal was sent from the aircraft which crashed in Co Kildare yesterday evening.

A father-of-three who died in a paragliding accident last weekend is to be cremated on Saturday.

The search for a man who left a valuable wedding voucher in the car of a taxi driver killed in a paragliding accident has succeeded.

The devastated wife of a taxi driver who died in a paragliding accident on Saturday has revealed how “happy” he was to find the man who had left a wedding voucher in his car just 24 hours before he died.

Ralph Skora, 30s, is believed to have been on the Wicklow Mountains yesterday.

The four Irish Coast Guard air crew who lost their lives in the Rescue 116 helicopter crash two years ago were remembered with prayers in north Mayo last night.

The Air Accident Investigation Unit’s final report into the loss of four Irish Coast Guard air crew off the north Mayo coast will not now be completed before the second anniversary of the crash.

The Transport Minister has pledged a prompt review of search and rescue (SAR) aviation operations in line with a key recommendation of a report examining a fatal helicopter crash in which four members of the Irish Coast Guard perished.

It has emerged that fighter jets from two countries were scrambled to intercept a Ryanair flight on Saturday after communications were lost with the aircraft.

Passenger baggage loaded into the incorrect hold of an Aer Lingus plane travelling between Dublin and France could have resulted in serious loss of control, air accident investigators have warned.

Two light aircraft, flown by student pilots, took off at the same time from intersecting runways at Cork Airport last year. Aviation inspectors have described it as “a serious incident”.

A woman who suffered several injuries, after falling from stairs while disembarking an aircraft at Cork Airport, had to wait on the ground for an hour for an ambulance.

The company that runs the search and rescue helicopter service, CHC Ireland, received repeated warnings over five years that the life jackets they supplied to their pilots were not fit for purpose.

Tests are expected to be carried out today on items discovered in Mayo - to determine if they belong to the missing crew of Rescue 116.

A 73-year-old managed to land a plane in Wexford with one hand while holding on to the cockpit canopy with the other.

Renewed sonar searches and trawling has begun around the crash site of the Irish Coast Guard helicopter that went down in the Atlantic.

Searches are due to resume off Co Mayo today for the lost crew of Coast Guard helicopter Rescue 116.

Four flares were let off into the Waterford sky as a wreath was laid at sea in a tribute to the crew members of Irish Coast Guard helicopter R116.

Black Rock lighthouse and the island it stands on were not included in a navigational database used by helicopter R116 and there is no assurance that a similar accident could not happen again.

Latest: Searches are to continue for two missing Irish Coast Guard crew members after a major operation to lift their helicopter from the sea failed to locate them.

Latest: The Air Accident Investigation Unit has released a statement confirming that no mechanical anomalies were found on the health and usage monitoring system and multi-purpose flight recorder recovered from Rescue 116.

Update 10.30pm: Gardaí have confirmed a body have been discovered on board the wreckage of the Rescue 116 aircraft.

The first dives for the Irish Coast Guard’s missing helicopter, R116, are likely to take place off the Mayo coast this morning.

A major operation to locate the wreckage of downed Rescue 116 is due to get underway at first light off Mayo today.

A transatlantic flight diverted to Shannon Airport this afternoon after a passenger on board was reported to have fallen ill.

Seventeen people were injured while the jet they were travelling on sustained significant damage when it entered turbulence shortly before landing in Dublin.

A private jet was a minute away from crashing into a mountain after pilots became confused over flight instructions, air accident investigators have found.

A helicopter which made an emergency landing in a field near Cork Harbour last year suffered catastrophic in-flight engine failure, a report has found.

The Air Accident Investigation Unit is to review the circumstances of a rescue at Hook Head in Co. Wexford last Sunday.

Two separate investigations are being carried out after a passenger fell while disembarking from a plane at Dublin Airport.

Dublin Airport is to revise its taxiway system following an incident in which two Ryanair planes clipped wings with each other at Dublin Airport last year.

The last transmission by a pilot killed in a light aircraft crash last month contained the words “going to end up in a field,” investigators have established.

A friend of the pilot who was killed in an air crash on Saturday evening and who witnessed the aftermath said yesterday no one could have survived the impact, which occurred just minutes after take-off.