Emergency services honoured at Mass

THE emergency services who saved six of the 12 passengers of last Thursday’s fateful Manx2 flight, were given a spontaneous round of applause as they attended a Mass in memory of the victims yesterday.

The crews have already been the subject of repeated praise internationally for the speed with which they reached the stricken plane off the Cork Airport runway, got the engine fire under control, removed the survivors from the wreckage and administered medical aid.

At Mass at the Church of the Assumption in Ballyphehane in Cork city, held in remembrance of those who perished, the congregation once again honoured the emergency services by bursting into applause as they walked down the aisle.