Four people were killed when a small plane lost power after take-off and crashed into a flight-training building while trying to return to an airport in Kansas, US officials said.

Government jet flights for Taoiseach Enda Kenny and his officials have cost nearly €1m since the Coalition took office in 2011.

The government Learjet was today used to take a critically ill two-year-old boy for a life-saving liver transplant in the UK.

THE use of Government jets to fly ministers around the country like a “taxi service” has been defended as necessary to meet the demands of their hectic schedules.

Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker has settled his lawsuit against several companies over a fatal plane crash, a lawyer in Los Angeles said tonight.

Almost 1,000 jobs are expected to go at a Bombardier aircraft parts factory in the North, it was revealed today.

GOVERNMENT ministers remain steadfastly reliant on their ministerial cars and government aircraft to travel countrywide and worldwide, according to new figures.

CHRISTMAS came early for the Cabinet yesterday as Defence Minister Michael Smith took time out from the more traditional forms of Yuletide shopping to unveil the new €8 million Government jet at Baldonnel Airport.