ONSITE INVESTIGATION OF CONNEMARA PLANE CRASH SCENE UNDERWAY

Date Published: 13-Oct-2009

The on-site investigation into the Connemara plane crash is expected to take up to three days. Department of Transport Air Accident investigators and military investigators have already retrieved data from the flight and cock-pit voice recorder found at the crash scene in the Maamturk Mountains. It's hoped it will help determine the cause of the crash at 6pm last evening, which claimed the lives of 32 year old flight instructor Captain Derek Furniss and 22 year old Cadet David Jevens.The two men were on board the PC-9 two seater military aircraft which had been taking part in a training exercise with two other aircraft, both of which returned safely to Galway airport.