Crash pilot’s last phone call before tragedy revealed

KILKENNY’s best known and most experienced pilot made a upbeat mobile phone call home before he died in a glider accident last month.

The preliminary accident report by the Air Accident Investigation Unit into death of pilot and flight instructor Martin Mulhall, 78, said that his craft plunged into a sudden nose dive before it hit the ground.

Mr Mulhall’s 30-year-old glider went out of control on August 7 at Kilkenny Airfield at 5.35pm in near perfect flying conditions, according to the air crash investigator’s report.