Flight procedures led to air accident

THE use of an unsuitable landing technique and failure to heed advice about crosswinds led to an accident involving a light aircraft at Knock Airport.

Six people who were able to climb from the stricken US-registered plane escaped injury when the wing tip clipped the tarmac while landing in a crosswind.

The plane, which had set off from Swansea in Wales for Weston in Co Dublin on the morning of May 26 last year, carried four passengers as well as the two flight crew.