Probes under way into training flight crash after 2,000ft plunge

INVESTIGATIONS are under way into the cause of a light aircraft crash which injured a flight instructor and his pupil yesterday after the craft plunged 2,000 feet from the sky.

The two-seater Pegasus came down in the Ballyduggan area of south Tipperary at about 11.30am yesterday, close to Slievenamon mountain and the village of Mullinahone.

The microlight craft had left Kilkenny airfield minutes earlier with instructor Vincent Vaughan bringing a pupil on a training flight.