Inquest into Cork airport plane crash returns accidental death verdicts

A verdict of accidental death has been returned in the cases of all six victims of the Manx2 plane crash at Cork Airport.

The jury returned its verdicts yesterday after deliberating for just over half an hour on evidence relating to the flight, which crashed in thick fog on its third landing attempt at around 9.50am on February 10, 2011.

The pilot and captain of the 19-seat aircraft en route from Belfast to Cork — Jordi Sola- Lopez, aged 31, from Manresa, Barcelona; co-pilot Andrew John Cantle, 27, from Sunderland; Patrick Gerard Cullinan, 45, from Belfast; Brendan McAleese, 39, from Co Antrim; Richard Kenneth Noble, aged 48, from Belfast; and Joseph Michael Evans, aged 51, also from Belfast — all died.