Flying school criticised after fatal crash

Air accident investigators today hit out at a private flight school, branding its supervision of instructors unsatisfactory, after two men were killed in a training flight.

Flying school criticised after fatal crash

Air accident investigators today hit out at a private flight school, branding its supervision of instructors unsatisfactory, after two men were killed in a training flight.

Colm Clancy, 34, from Derrybeg in west Donegal, and his 24-year-old student, Dermot Sheridan, of Co Clare, died after their helicopter struck power lines 30ft off the ground in April last year.

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