Shatter apologises to family of cadet

Defence Minister Alan Shatter expressed “sincere regret” for the tragic events that led to the death of a trainee Air Corps pilot on a flight training mission in 2009, during a civil action taken by the father of the deceased.

Cadet David Jevens, aged 21, of Glynn, Co Wexford, along with his flight instructor, Capt Derek Furniss, aged 32, from Rathfarnham, Dublin, died when their F265 Pilatus PC-9(M) training plane crashed near Cornamona, Co Galway, on October 12, 2009.

Donal Jevens, David’s father, had sued the minister for defence and the attorney general following his death.