Crash survivor plans charity cycle

A survivor of the Manx2 plane crash is planning to cycle from Belfast to Cork to raise funds for a children’s’ cancer charity in the city that saved his life.

“I have wanted to do something to repay the people of Cork for all they did for me and my wife after the crash. And this is my way of doing it and saying ‘thank you’,” Mark Dickens said last night.

Watford-based Mr Dickens, a regional security manager for a international retail chain, was one of 10 passengers on board the flight from Belfast to Cork exactly one year ago.