Senior counsel Patrick McCann has been appointed to chair a review board into aspects of the draft final report on the loss of four Irish Coast Guard Rescue 116 helicopter crew off north Mayo almost three years ago. Mr McCann will be assisted by an “independent expert member”, Transport Minister Shane Ross said in a statement announcing the establishment of the review board — two months after it

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.

The Transport Minister says it is vital that lessons are learned from the deaths of five people during separate coast guard missions as a new oversight plan for search and rescue (SAR) operations in Ireland was published.

An investigation into a minor plane crash at Cork Airport has found a student pilot lost control of the aircraft.

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

A preliminary report into the cause of an air crash in Kildare which took the lives of two men is expected within the next 30 days.

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.

Family and friends of the man who died in a paragliding accident have paid tributes to the big-hearted enthusiast.

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

Passengers climbed out through emergency exits onto the wings of an Aer Lingus aeroplane when they panicked after the pilot told them to disembark rapidly at Cork Airport.

An Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to LA had to make an emergency landing, after the aircraft received an engine fire warning on take off, on December 28, 2017.

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.

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 pilot who was in a hurry to get airborne hand-started his engine by swinging the propeller with the throttle on a high setting and the ignition switch on — and was forced to chase after it as it moved across the field, hit a ditch, and burst into flames.

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

Irish air accident investigators have called on the Portuguese civil aviation authority to review current legislation regarding the use of dangerous lasers after a Ryanair flight crew was forced to abort a landing because a pilot was ‘temporarily blinded.’

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.

International and Irish pilots have come together to condemn as “unwarranted, unacceptable and counterproductive to flight safety” the publication of the last two minutes of the cockpit voice recordings of ill-fated Irish 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.

An initial report into the Rescue 116 helicopter crash says it "pitched up rapidly" in its final seconds.

Up to 1,000 people will this weekend mobilise in an air, sea, and land search for missing R116 helicopter crew members Paul Ormsby and Ciarán Smith.

A sweeping search of the area where helicopter Rescue 116 went down is continuing this morning.

No trace has been found of the two missing crewmen from Rescue 116 after it was lifted from the seabed off Blackrock Island, Co Mayo.

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.

The focus of the Irish Coast Guard helicopter Rescue 116 search mission off the North Mayo coast has shifted to the recovery of the remaining two missing crew members, writes Evelyn Ring.