Angry passengers stranded at airport

ANGRY passengers finally flew out of Cork Airport yesterday after being stranded for nearly 18 hours when a plane scheduled to take them on a sun holiday failed to arrive.

The 178 passengers, including five-month-old twins, had been due to fly out at 7.05pm on Thursday on a chartered Boeing 757 to Lanzarote.

Passengers were told that the plane, chartered from Shannon-based Eirjet by Falcon package holidays, was unable to land because of fog.