Skydiver killed in crash planned trip home

THE parents of Nigel O’Gorman, who was killed in a plane crash on Monday, arrived in Australia yesterday to begin preparations to bring his body home.

Mr O’Gorman, 34, from Naas in Co Kildare but born in Dublin, was one of five people killed when a seven-seater Cessna 206 aircraft hit a tree on take-off at the Brisbane Skydiving Centre near Ipswich in Queensland and then crashed upside down into a nearby reservoir. Two people, including the founder of the centre, survived.

It was revealed yesterday that Mr O’Gorman, a skydiving instructor, had been planning a trip home to Ireland. According to the chief instructor at the Irish Parachute Club in Co Offaly, Colman Brouder, he had been in contact about a trip home.