Relatives receive Tuskar Rock crash report

Relatives of passengers and crew killed in the 1968 Aer Lingus plane crash have received copies of a report into the disaster.

The investigation is the third to be carried out on the crash of the Viscount plane.

The plane went down near Tuskar Rock off the County Wexford coast in March 1968.

All 61 people on board the flight from Cork to London died.

The cause of the crash has never been established.

The report will be published this afternoon but there has already been speculation that the report rejects a long-held theory that the aircraft plunged into the sea after it was hit by a British test missile.