When John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown crash-landed into a Connemara bog almost a century ago, it was a Cork-born journalist who broke the news of their non-stop transatlantic flight to the rest of the world.

THE pilot of an aircraft that crashed, killing himself and a passenger, was stressed and uncomfortable about the weather while carrying out the demonstration flight for a group of businessmen, an investigation has found.

The pilot of an aircraft that crashed, killing himself and a passenger, was stressed carrying out the demonstration flight for a group of businessmen, an investigation found today.

The two men killed in yesterday's plane crash in Galway have been named locally as Dublin pilot Matt Masterson and businessman Paul McNamee, from Loughrea in Galway.