GARDAI SEEK WITNESSES TO PLANE CRASH IN CONNEMARA

Date Published: 13-Oct-2009

Gardaí are appealling for witnesses to the plane crash in Connemara yesterday in which two men were killed.Air Accident investigators and military investigators are at the scene of the crash near Cornamona.The bodies of two Air Corps personel, a flight instructor and a cadet, have not yet been removed from the scene.They were the only people on board the aircraft when it came down near the village of Cornamona yesterday evening around 6 o' clock.The PC-9 two seater plane had been taking part in a training exercise with two other aircraft, both of which returned safely to Galway airport.Gardaí are asking anyone who may have seen the aircraft or witnesses the crash around 6pm yesterday to contact them at the incident room at Maam Garda Station at 091 57 11 92.