Hopes enhanced footage will help with fatal air crash probe

Air Accident investigators are hoping to enhance the image quality of video recordings taken by parachutists following a jump from an aircraft that subsequently crashed, killing the pilot and a seven-year old passenger.

A preliminary report into the Co Offaly crash that claimed the lives of seven-year-old Polish national Kacper Kacprzac and British pilot Neil ‘Billy’ Bowditch, 47, on May 13, found the Cessna hit boggy ground, nose-down, in a forested area, and the impact was such that the front section of the aircraft was buried in bog.

The Cessna was configured for parachute operations and Kacper’s father, Kris, a Polish national living in Dublin, had taken part in an earlier skydive that day. Weather conditions were described as “quite benign”.