FINAL MOMENTS

SURVIVORS of doomed flight NM7100 gave graphic details last night of the terrifying final moments on board the plane, which crashed in dense fog at Cork Airport.

FINAL MOMENTS

They told air accident investigators they could see the ground as the Manx2 flight made its second and final approaches to the runway.

The investigators have established that the Fairchild Metroliner’s right wing-tip hit the runway on landing, flipping the aircraft onto its roof, before it slid 190 metres along the runway, veering off to a muddy verge.

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