Thick fog at Cork Airport cleared half an hour after deadly plane crash

THICK fog at Cork Airport cleared about half an hour after the deadly plane crash.

Weather summaries for aviation authorities showed visibility on the ground was down to 300m around the time the plane first tried to land.

Broken cloud cover was down as low as 100ft above ground, official reports said. According to meteorological aviation reports (METARs), recorded every half hour, there was very little wind, five to eight knots, but the fog was lifting slightly.