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AN INVESTIGATION HAS resumed into the fatal crash of a small airplane in Co Longford yesterday.
The Air Accidents Investigation Unit (AAIU) of the Department of Transport confirmed that it had resumed its investigation at 11am this morning.
The investigation comes after a father in his forties was killed when the small aircraft he was flying crashed near Abbeyshrule Airport at about 5.30pm yesterday evening.
The man was not local to the area but was visiting Abbeyshrule for the day to fly.
The AAIU team (made up of three investigators) arrived on the scene at 9pm last night. They initially examined the crash site before the man’s body was released to the emergency services.
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The gardaí have also launched a separate investigation into the incident.
“A tragic accident”
Local county councillor Mick Cahill described the accident as a “terrible tragedy”.
“It’s a tragic thing to happen locally. Abbeyshrule is a very close knit community,” he said.
There would always be people flying up around the airport… it would be normal enough that people would be there on weekends.
Cahill said that the airport was a popular spot for flying enthusiasts, with people regularly coming in from out of town to take part in activities there.
No one knows how it happened. It was a tragic accident and I send every sympathy to the family.
The AAIU will continue their investigation and issue a final report when it’s completed.
The main activities of the investigation will be:
The recording of the wreckage and the general area.
Interviews with eye-witnesses to the crash
Removing the wreckage and documenting it at the examination facility in Gormanstown, Co Meath.
The accident is the second significant aircraft crash to take place in the Longford town in a year.
Last July, a helicopter crashed into the side of the Rustin Inn pub. No one was seriously injured in the incident.
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So what if its a different time in the UK. We do enty of business with countries in different timezones. Some countries even have different timezones with in the one country so again it makes no difference if we’re on a different time to NI. I’d personally prefer to stay on summer time all year but Im not that pushed. Just as long as we get rid of changing the clocks.
Anyone with toddlers will know, it’s an absolute nightmare trying to adjust their sleeping patterns after the time change. Also it’s preferable to have more daylight in the evening available to school kids. Not to mention the fact that roads would be safer because volumes of traffic increase towards evening.
@Paraic: I disagree. However, if we stay on summertime then when winter rolls around it won’t get bright until close to 10am which means kids walking to school in the dark. If this has to change then remaining on wintertime is the only option so it’s not dark when the kids are going to school and coming home from school.
@Ian Breathnach: kids already go to school on the dark as the hour time difference means it gets bright close to 9. Unless you live next door to the school your kids go to school in the dark in winter.
Groundhog day, we keep revisiting this time when socialists with fanciful ideas thinks a keynote speech awaiting by the world and worthy of flying his royal bum in a learjet to go 100 miles up the road.
If we stay on winter time we will still get bright evenings but we wont have really dark mornings. Its hard enough to get out of bed and don’t think its safe to bring kids to school in the dark.
I look forward to the time change after Christmas. Can we change the time before the end of March, like in February or something and make a shorter winter?
Stay on summertime please, we know if the morning is dark it will get brighter but once it’s dark in the evening that’s it!! Most children are driven to school anyway and in urban areas they have street lights. We’ll manage just fine if UK is on different time zone to us, most of Europe is and we do business with them!!
It seems the problem is simply the change. Statistics of heart attacks make a clear jump upward the few days every year after changing to summertime when we suddenly have to awake and get up an hour earlier.
Some would claim that it evens itself out in the autumn when we are allowed to sleep an hour more, as the same heart attack statistics show less heart attacks that and following few mornings. For the ones that are killed by the time change in the spring it was tough luck as nobody told them and for the saved in the autumn just pure luck.
The take awayis that if we sleep too few hours not only can we become grumpy but also suddenly die from it.
Moreover both Thatcher and Ron Reagan bragged that 4 hours sleep was enough. Both ended their days without knowing what was going on, in Alzheimer’s. Now shown to be aggravated by too few hours of sleep.
Ireland already has some medical deserts - and it’s been getting worse
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