FOG FLIGHT HELL

THE pilots of the aircraft that crash-landed at Cork Airport yesterday, claiming their lives and those of four passengers, have been strongly defended by the chairman of the airline.

Noel Hayes, chairman of Manx2 Airlines, said the air crew followed standard procedures in trying to land three times in dense fog.

“It is sadly not unusual in terms of bad weather for aircraft to take three approaches… it is the standard. I am very confident of the standards and levels in which they operate,” he said.