Airport Incident

largepants

Anyone know whats going on at the airport? Some sort of incident with a plane this morning?

deRanged

breaking news on twitter that a light aircraft crashed.
nothing more than that so far.

evilivor

Manx Air flight from Belfast apparently. 2 crew, 10 passengers

emo72

ppat kenny said a fire

mudokon

Just caught the end of something on the radio about it, Eight units of the fire brigade have gone up there and some flights are being redirected.

Garda have said there is a major incident and are asking people not to go up Airport hill. Area around airport closed off.

A small plane burst into flames on landing. unconfirmed reports that there were 15 people on board.

Edit: apparently 2 ambulances are leaving the airport with a Garda escort.

evilivor

BREAKING: Reports from Cork Airport scene say eight people have died and 14 others have been injured in the crash

largepants

At least 11 dead I heard.

evilivor

Eoin English up at the airport said 12 on board - reports of 8 dead and told to "expect the worst…"

gimmick

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0210/cork.html

Bloody hell.

maryomeara

Yeah 8 ppl dead and it was coming from Belfast ??

warder6161

evilivor wrote: »

BREAKING: Reports from Cork Airport scene say eight people have died and 14 others have been injured in the crash

sky using your pic!

evilivor

warder6161 wrote: »

sky using your pic!

Not my pic - twitter pic

HooterSnout

from http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0210/cork.html


There are unconfirmed reports that eight people have been killed in a plane crash at Cork Airport.


The Manx2 commuter flight, with 10 passengers and two crew, was en route from Belfast when it crashed in heavy fog at Cork Airport just before 10am.

The Aviation Authority says the aircraft made two attempts to land before crashing.
Witnesses report hearing a loud bang. The aircraft is said to have burst into flames.

Debris has been scattered onto the runway and over a wide area.
Gardaí, fire crews and ambulances from across the city and county are responding.
Gardai are appealing to people to stay away from the airport and for motorists to avoid the area.

JohnK

Sky news now saying 3 killed and 2 trapped - that came from Cork County Council apparently.

Darragh

Via BBC Breaking News

Cork County Council spokesman says 3 people are confirmed dead after a plane from Belfast crashed at Cork Airport

http://twitter.com/#!/BBCBreaking/status/35655208302288896

mudokon

according to 96fm, 6 dead confirmed.

rebel girl 15

RTE have said that 5 confirmed dead by CUH

Faith

Jesus, you just wouldn't expect it from a short little internal flight, would you? I mean, if I was to be nervous flying, I think transatlantic flights would freak out because I'd perceive more danger. RIP

JohnK

Sky News saying 6 dead, 6 injured and thats from Cork County Council again

largepants

I think the 11 I mentioned looks wrong. Either way any loss of life is a bad day. RIP.

Kimono-Girl

oh wow thats so sad, i had a heart attack when i heard a small plane had crashed though. at 10am my best friend's facebook signed him in at cork airport, he's training to be a pilot...luckily it wasn't his plane but he's up there now, and he saw it happen, he says everyone is shocked and upset.

Sephiroth_dude

I'm in utter shock can't believe it,R.I.P

rebel girl 15

Reports from the airport say that the plane landed and ended up turning over, before the back end of the plane burst into flames. the nose seems to have come off or been buried in the ground

GavRedKing

Fog was so heavy this morning.

RIP to those who have passed.

tankbarry

shocking ..... bless them

Manach

The fog was dense, but not exceptional so this morning.
R.I.P.

Heathen

latest pics from RTE

Owen

Christ that's shocking - I trained up there too, it's really weird to see this on such a familiar place. You never think this'll happen in your own town. RIP to those who've been lost, and sympathies to the poor people who've survived - they won't be over this for a very very long time.

upinthesky

prayers for all the familys involved

hate planes

-Corkie-

God help them all. RIP.

Hogzy

Manach wrote: »

The fog was dense, but not exceptional so this morning.

I live 4 miles to the east of the airport. Fog around 10am was unbelievably bad up on the hill where the airport is.
Where i live i couldnt see houses that were 70m from our house

Ludo

Hogzy wrote: »

I live 4 miles to the east of the airport. Fog around 10am was unbelievably bad up on the hill where the airport is.
Where i live i couldnt see houses that were 70m from our house

I agree...I left home at 7 this morning and the fog (in places) was the worst I have seen in a long long time.

rebel girl 15

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=70573230&postcount=70

HooterSnout

Hogzy wrote: »

I live 4 miles to the east of the airport. Fog around 10am was unbelievably bad up on the hill where the airport is.
Where i live i couldnt see houses that were 70m from our house

Added to the fact that Cork Airport has it's own weather system. Overcast in City equals floods in the Airport and Business Park. Rest in Peace to those who lost their lives today.

pow wow

Condolences to all those involved. Terribly terribly sad. I gather from the Garda talking at the televised press conference that the deaths were most likely from physical injury than burns as the fire didn't spread to the cabin.

evilivor

Some people have real class…

"@IsaacsCork We are offering cheap accommodation room only €50 or €35pps B&B. Our sincerest condelences for all in todays Tragic accident at Cork Airport"

http://twitter.com/IsaacsCork

Judes

My thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends who have lost loved ones today in this terrible tragedy. And to those who work in front line services within Cork Airport, HSE, Gardai, Firemen - it must be a horrendous day for them having to cope with this. Stay strong.

JP Liz V1

RIP all who died, tragic news, god help all the family and friends

evilivor

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/feb/10/cork-plane-crash-latest-news

A cousin of Ireland's President Mary McAleese is reported to be among the six who died in the Cork plane crash.

Brendan McAleese is among the fatalities according to reports from Belfast City Airport where his wife arrived this afternoon.

The President's cousin runs a laundry business in Northern Ireland and was on his way to a meeting in southern Ireland when he joined the flight.

News broke about President McAleese's personal connection to the tragedy just hours after she had sent her sympathies on behalf of the entire Irish people to the victims' families.

eastbono

My deepest condolences to all the families of the dead today and my thoughts with the injured and their families....terrible tragedy

Dudess

Hogzy wrote: »

I live 4 miles to the east of the airport. Fog around 10am was unbelievably bad up on the hill where the airport is.
Where i live i couldnt see houses that were 70m from our house

I was coming down from the Military Hill direction this morning just before 8 and there was the odd spot where I couldn't actually see, visibility was that bad.

evilivor wrote: »

Some people have real class…

"@IsaacsCork We are offering cheap accommodation room only €50 or €35pps B&B. Our sincerest condelences for all in todays Tragic accident at Cork Airport"

http://twitter.com/IsaacsCork

Holy ****ing sh1t...

ofcork

And they cant even spell condolence right!

wispyman

How far back do you have to go in Irish history for a similar scale of tragedy - Excluding the Air India plane which was way out over the sea.

Frynge

i think it was an aerlingus flight near tuskar rock off wexford in the 60's, bout 60 died in that

Peppa Pig

wispyman wrote: »

How far back do you have to go in Irish history for a similar scale of tragedy - Excluding the Air India plane which was way out over the sea.

Unfortunately, only last July. The 8 lads killed in the car crash in Donegal

wispyman

Peppa Pig wrote: »

Unfortunately, only last July. The 8 lads killed in the car crash in Donegal

As you rightly highlighted I did not specify air crashes!! I was just curious as to any notable air related incidents over the last 50 odd years in Ireland

eastbono

I would suppose the worst disaster in modern times(excluding monaghan and dublin bombings and the stardust) in the republic was the buttevant train crash in 1980 and again the emergency plan had to be activated in cork.

themonboys

Rest in Peace

eastbono wrote: »

I would suppose the worst disaster in modern times(excluding monaghan and dublin bombings and the stardust) in the republic was the buttevant train crash in 1980 and again the emergency plan had to be activated in cork.

Betelgeuse incident and wasn't there a ferry up the country that turned over? I'm not sure how many died.

pirateninja

wispyman wrote: »

As you rightly highlighted I did not specify air crashes!! I was just curious as to any notable air related incidents over the last 50 odd years in Ireland

Tuskar Rock in 1968, that was an Aer lingus flight from Cork to London, 68 were killed in that crash.

After that then the Air India bombing in 1985 where 329 died but it was in the middle of the sea so not really in Ireland though it did happen in Irish air space.

teekayd25

eastbono wrote: »

I would suppose the worst disaster in modern times(excluding monaghan and dublin bombings and the stardust) in the republic was the buttevant train crash in 1980 and again the emergency plan had to be activated in cork.

You're probably right about Buttevant being the worst transport accident we have had - in terms of the other disasters we should also mention the Betelgeuse / Whiddy Island explosion from the late '70s.

Such an amazing response from all the emergency services, made all the awful news that little bit easier to deal with.

teekayd25

themonboys wrote: »

Betelgeuse incident and wasn't there a ferry up the country that turned over? I'm not sure how many died.

pirateninja wrote: »

Tuskar Rock in 1968, that was an Aer lingus flight from Cork to London, 68 were killed in that crash.

Oops, missed these posts for some reason. Yeah, that capsized boat was at New Quay, Co. Clare.

http://www.clarepeople.com/wordp5/201007021873/north-clare-remembers-its-worst-boating-tragedy/

More recently / locally, there was a ferry accident at Castletownbere in 1994.

http://folk.uio.no/erikro/WWW/corrgr/insurance/incident.pdf