Airplane crash victim Kacper ‘a happy, smiling young boy’

The boy who was killed in the light airplane crash in Offaly on Sunday afternoon has been remembered as a “happy, smiling young boy” by the principal of his school.

Seven-year-old Kacper Kacprzak died when the plane in which he was a passenger crashed not far from where it had taken off at the Irish Parachute Club’s airfield in Clonbullogue, near Edenderry.

Sixteen parachutists, including the boy’s father, had just completed a scheduled jump from the plane moments before the crash.