‘I focused on seeing my children again’

A SURVIVOR of the Cork Airport crash has revealed how thinking of his wife and children helped him through the horrendous moments after impact.

‘I focused on seeing my children again’

Still bearing the scars of last Thursday’s accident, Mark Dickens, 40, a father of two girls aged eight and five, and a two-year-old boy, spoke for the first time yesterday about how he survived the Manx2 crash in dense fog, which claimed the lives of six people.

“I focused on my children and on seeing them again,” he said.

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