Survivor of the Manx2 plane crash in charity cycle

A survivor of last year’s Manx2 plane crash can expect a hero’s welcome in Cork today when he completes a charity cycle which followed the same route as the doomed flight.

Mark Dickens was one of six passengers injured when the Belfast to Cork commuter plane crash-landed at Cork Airport in Feb 2011. Six other passengers, including the two pilots, were killed.

Mr Dickens, a father of three from Ashford in Kent, set off four days ago with his brother-in-law on the 500km cycle from Belfast in order to “repay the people of Cork” for the care he received from emergency crews and hospital staff following the crash.