Rector’s daughter walks from plane wreckage

A CHURCHMAN’S daughter had a miraculous escape yesterday when she escaped relatively unharmed from the plane crash that killed six people at Cork Airport.

Rector’s daughter walks from plane wreckage

Kinsale-born Heather Elliott was seated near the wing of the turbo prop aircraft, which crash-landed on a runway in dense fog yesterday morning, after overturning and catching fire while making its third attempt to land.

Heather, in her 40s, a married mother-of-two and living in Belfast for many years, was returning to Kinsale on the 18-seater Manx2 airline flight from Belfast to Cork to visit her mother for the weekend.

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