The girlfriend and parents of a co-pilot killed in a plane crash a year ago today are suing two companies involved in running the flight.

For Laurence Wilson and the other survivors of last year’s plane crash tragedy, Friday will be a day of mixed emotions.

A newly promoted captain took a plane’s power controls seconds before it crashed a year ago in thick fog at Cork Airport, accident investigators have revealed.

A PILOT who had previously flown the plane which crashed in Cork Airport earlier this year with the loss of six lives, hanged himself because he believed the crash could have been averted if he had been at the controls.

THE family of the co-pilot killed in the Manx2 flight which crashed at Cork airport in February claim they still have had “no contact” from the company which also ignored a request to pay to bring his body home.

THE inexperienced captain of the Cork Airport crash flight allowed his rookie co-pilot to make three landing attempts in dense fog.

THE devastated partner of the co-pilot killed in the Cork Airport disaster said last night that he would have done everything in his power to prevent the tragedy.

No mechanical faults have yet been identified in a plane that crashed killing six people and injuring six more.

A preliminary report into a plane crash that killed six people and injured six more will be published today.

Manx2 has ended its service between Belfast and Cork just over a fortnight after one of its flights crashed killing six people.

A former seaman killed in the Cork plane crash was loyal and dedicated to his family, his funeral heard today.

The wife of a man killed in the Cork plane crash has paid tribute to her caring “one love”.

THE pregnant widow of a man killed in the Cork Airport plane crash clutched her young daughters’ hands yesterday as she walked behind his coffin.

The pregnant wife of a man killed in Thursday's plane crash at Cork Airport clutched her young daughters’ hands today as she walked behind his coffin.

Mourners will say a final farewell today to the first victims to be buried from the Cork plane crash that claimed six lives.

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.

Full services resumed at Cork Airport today after the plane crash that killed six people, as the chairman of Manx2 airline insisted both pilots were fully qualified.

QUESTIONS surrounding the circumstances of Thursday’s Cork Airport tragedy remained unanswered last night after the mother of a pilot on the doomed flight revealed it was one of her son’s first as captain.

TWO of the six survivors from the Cork Airport tragedy are still in Cork University Hospital’s (CUH) intensive care unit after suffering serious injuries during the crash.

THE grieving mother of a young co-pilot killed in the Cork air crash described her son as “an all-action hero” devoted to a flying career.

SURVIVORS of doomed flight NM7100 gave graphic details last night of the terrifying final moments on board the plane, which crashed in dense fog at Cork Airport.

The Manx2 plane which crashed at Cork Airport killing six people was put through a full maintenance check in Spain last week, it emerged today.

The two people discharged from hospital just over 24 hours after yesterday's plane crash in Cork have thanked the emergency services for their swift action, while the grieving mother of the young co-pilot killed in the crash has described her son as “an all-action hero”.

The English co-pilot killed in the Cork plane crash had previously helped rescue 66 people volunteering on a lifeboat in the north-east of England.

Both black boxes have now been recovered from the wreckage of the plane that crashed in Cork yesterday, killing six people.

Air-accident investigators were trying to piece together the final minutes of the Cork plane crash that left six people dead.