INVESTIGATORS probing the Cork Airport tragedy will begin the painstaking task of reconstructing the shattered remains of the plane in a Co Meath hangar today.

SO much of what we do, so much of what we think important, was put into a sobering perspective by yesterday’s tragedy at Cork Airport when six people lost their lives in a plane crash.

A PILOT narrowly escaped serious injury after a light aircraft ran out of fuel during a flight organised by a parachute club last year.

A PRIVATE business jet narrowly avoided crashing into mountains near Killarney, Co Kerry, last year after the flight crew had experienced “a serious loss of situational awareness” while returning to Kerry Airport after suffering a cracked windscreen.

THE funeral of Dr Michael Slazenger who died along with a friend following a plane crash in Wicklow is expected to take place on Thursday.

THE funeral of Dr Michael Slazenger who died along with a friend following a plane crash in Wicklow is expected to take place on Thursday.

A retired anaesthetist whose family founded the Slazenger sports brand died today after a plane crash in which another man was also killed, gardaí said.

A retired anaesthetist whose family founded the Slazenger sports brand was fighting for his life today after a plane crash which left another man dead.

A startled pilot involved in a late-night near-miss at Dublin Airport radioed air traffic controllers to tell them he thought he saw a lawnmower on a runway, it was revealed tonight.

THE pilot of a light aircraft which crashed in the Wicklow Mountains in October 2008 was the victim of a violent assault on the day before the accident, it has emerged.

A CHARTER plane with 118 passengers and crew on board narrowly avoided crashing into a hotel near Ballymun after its pilot mistook the lights of the 16-storey building for the runway at Dublin Airport.

A charter flight carrying more than 100 passengers went off course on landing at Dublin Airport after lights from a near-by building were mistaken for the runway, it emerged today.

A pilot plunged to his death after telling friends he would do a few last aerobatic tricks in his home-built plane as he took off for home to his family, it emerged today.

A MAN was killed after his plane crashed in North Kerry yesterday shortly after completing an exhibition flight.

THE Department of Transport is considering a formal investigation into Ryanair over the recent spate of dangerous landing approaches made by the discount airline.

AN official investigation is set to clear Ryanair pilots of any wrongdoing over an incident in which several aircraft operated by the Irish airline landed at Stansted Airport in heavy fog in breach of safety limits last year.

A PILOT who witnessed a serious incident in which a Ryanair aircraft aborted a landing near Cork Airport last year has described how he believed the plane with 134 passengers and crew on board was going to crash.

A RYANAIR pilot has been demoted after creating a serious incident by flying a plane just over 400 feet above hundreds of homes on its approach to Cork Airport last summer.

A FATAL helicopter accident which resulted in the death of two Galway businessmen last year was probably caused by the pilot becoming disoriented due to poor visibility, an official investigation has concluded.

THE number of near-miss incidents involving aircraft in Irish airspace fell to its lowest level in many years in 2005.

IRELAND could have witnessed its first major international terrorist incident if the Pan-Am flight which crashed over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988 had left London’s Heathrow Airport on schedule.

A RYANAIR flight that passed as low as 20 feet over homes in a Cork suburb is the subject of two investigations.

ONE of two engines on an Aer Arann aircraft flying from Luton to Galway two years ago shut down in mid-flight after it ran out of fuel, in an incident which mirrored last week’s fatal crash involving a similar aircraft near Sicily.

AIR accident investigators have warned that short-distance flights with rapid turnaround times are creating “a continued high pressure environment” for pilots.