Man kicked his way out of rubble to escape wreckage

A SURVIVOR of the horrific Cork plane crash kicked his way out of the rubble before calling his wife to let her know he was alive.

Laurence Wilson, from Larne in Co Antrim, is understood to have struggled out of the wreckage from the back of the doomed flight.

Mr Wilson, who is in his early 50s, has a number of adult children and comes from a well-respected Larne family.