Plane Crashes in Ireland Kills 6 and Wounds Other 6
Cork Plane Crash (rte.ie)
Six people were killed and six were wounded as a small plane which was traveling from Belfast crashed due to fog at Cork Airport runaway while trying to execute a third emergency landing.
The plane was carrying 10 members and two crew on board; it overturned and burst into flames, injuring seriously four people and less another two.
Eight firefighters crews rushed to put the fire out, and the injured were taken to, and are now being treated at, the Cork University Hospital.
Cork Plane Crash (bbc.co.uk)
People living in the neighborhood of the airport said that they heard the plane flying over their heads outside Cork city and that from the sound they could say that there was something wrong with it.
Eyewitnesses say that the police turned people back from the airport, telling them that there would be no flights today.
Some say that there were people inside the airport who were waiting for those who were in the plane and were killed or injured.
The flight, BPS 7100, scheduled daily from Belfast to Cork, left the airport in Belfast at 0812GMT.
The Cork Country Council said that the priority of the emergency center was to help survivors and find the four people who are still unaccounted for. The council confirmed the dead and the wounded as well as the fact that Cork Airport was closed.
The passenger manifest of the flight has been handed over to the police so that they may be found.
