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.

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

BUSINESSMAN Brendan Mallon made a frantic phonecall to his wife after surviving the ill-fated flight NM 7100 crash which claimed the lives of six other passengers.