Air accident investigators have said heavy rainfall has not helped their efforts to discover the cause of the aircraft crash in County Kildare on Thursday night.

ALMOST a day elapsed before the emergency services were alerted to the disappearance of a helicopter, found crashed, with two crew dead on board.

An investigation into a light aircraft crash which killed a family last month is focusing on the weather conditions, it emerged tonight.

IT WAS meant to be a fun bank holiday weekend away but it all went horribly wrong in bad weather on the Wicklow Mountains.

Rescue personnel searching for a missing UK-registered light aircraft today found wreckage in the Wicklow mountains, gardaí confirmed.