A survivor of one of Ireland’s worst plane crashes in 50 years wants European aviation regulators to implement a raft of safety recommendations contained in the final crash report, published yesterday.

Engine failure is being investigated as the primary cause of a light aircraft crash which killed a flight instructor and a trainee pilot.

THE first official report into last month’s fatal plane crash at Cork Airport is expected to be delivered to the victims’ families and survivors within days.

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.

A PRELIMINARY investigation into the devastating air crash at Cork Airport could be complete within a month, investigators said yesterday.

Irish, British and Spanish air accident investigators are to work together to establish the cause of the deadly Cork plane crash.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) has said four of those injured in this morning's aircraft crash at Cork Airport are in a serious condition.

Gardaí have confirmed the bodies of four people – including two teenage boys – were tonight recovered from the wreckage of a UK-registered light aircraft in the Wicklow mountains.

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

A SCHOOL caretaker was the hero of the day when he risked his own safety to rescue a helicopter pilot following a crash in Co Meath.

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.