Plaque to honour crash anniversary

A memorial plaque is to be unveiled next week to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a plane crash off the Cork coast which claimed the lives of 28 people.

Flying Tiger Lines Flight 923, which was on charter to the US military, ditched in the sea during a raging storm while on route from New Jersey to Frankfurt.

Past the mid-point from Newfoundland to Shannon, a fire in one engine led to the accidental, permanent shutdown of a second engine. The pilot was forced to ditch in the sea south of Galley Head near Clonakilty when a third engine caught fire.