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.

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.

Noel Hayes, the chairman of the airline Manx2, whose plane crashed at Cork Airport yesterday morning has said the two-man crew on board was fully qualified to operate the flight.

THE pilots of the aircraft that crash-landed at Cork Airport yesterday, claiming their lives and those of four passengers, have been strongly defended by the chairman of the airline.

THE head of Manx2.com, a ‘virtual airline’, which outsources the ownership and operation of its flights, has spoken of his “terrible shock” following the horrific accident at Cork airport on one of its routes.

The chairman of Manx2.com tonight defended the pilots whose plane crashed in Cork with the loss of six lives.

A relative of Ireland’s President has died along with two other businessmen from the North, a UK citizen, and a Spanish pilot and British co-pilot in a plane crash in Cork Airport.

REGIONAL business hubs stand to benefit from the new routes due to be opened up by Manx2.com, the Isle of Man airline whose twice-daily Cork- Belfast route enjoyed load factors regularly exceeding 60% last year.

ISLE of Man-based airline Manx2 is planning major investments in the Irish market which will see more routes from Cork airport.

MOURNERS who attended the funeral Mass yesterday of the first road victim of 2010 heard of a gloom over a Co Limerick community, the like of which had not been seen for many years.

THE funeral takes place today in Co Limerick of the first person to die on Irish roads in 2010.

ONE person died and three others are seriously injured in hospital after car accidents.

Gardaí have named a man who died yesterday after a collision in Limerick.

The annual Crosbie Senior Foursomes at Cork Golf Club yesterday was won by senior internationals Patrick Harrington, Muskerry and Gerry O’Keeffe from Waterford.