Two killed in Air Corps plane crash

TWO Air Corps pilots were killed after their light aircraft crashed in Connemara, Co Galway, last evening during a training mission.

Shortly after 6pm, the Air Corps PC-9 two-seater training aircraft was reported missing near Crumlin, north of Lough Corrib, on the Galway-Mayo border.

Late last night, Defence Forces and emergency personnel located the wreckage and confirmed the deaths of the crewmen.