The accident happened at Duncormick, Co Wexford at approximately 5.45pm this evening.

A leak in an oil supply pipe caused fumes to enter the cockpit and cabin of a London-bound passenger flight, which was forced to return to Dublin Airport for an emergency landing, a report into last year’s incident has found.

The Air Accident Investigation unit has released its report on a fatal helicopter crash in Co. Kildare last year.

A helicopter has been forced to make an emergency landing in Dublin this afternoon.

A build-up of ice or of de-icing fluid on a Flybe aircraft might have been the cause of an air emergency in which four people were injured last December, according to an official report published today.