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osarusan
10/02/2011, 10:27 AM
BBC reporting 3 dead, RTE with 'unconfirmed' reports of 8 dead.

Flight was from Belfast, crashed in heavy for before 10am.

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

can't find it on the BBC online but it's on their news channel.
Real ale Madrid
10/02/2011, 10:30 AM
Gets very foggy up there from time to time, especially in the morning, very stange that it attempted to land twice and then tried again.

Very sad, rte now reporting 3 dead and 3-4 still caught up in the wreckage.
osarusan
10/02/2011, 10:32 AM
Irish Times says 'Informed sources have confirmed that six people are dead.'

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0210/breaking19.html

BBC site saying 3 dead and 4 unaccounted for.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12415541
thischarmingman
10/02/2011, 10:55 AM
Twitter saying 6+ dead. Apparently one person walked away.
Dodge
10/02/2011, 11:04 AM
6 confirmed dead now.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0210/breaking19.html
Mark Breen
10/02/2011, 11:08 AM
Just seen pictures, Only way anyone could have survived is if they were sitting at the back of the plane.

plane is upside down and the only area not crushed is down by the tail.

Will try upload pic.
Mark Breen
10/02/2011, 11:10 AM
http://img.rasset.ie/0004369a-640.jpg
Mark Breen
10/02/2011, 11:21 AM
http://img.rasset.ie/0004369e-640.jpg

Pictures courtesy of RTE.ie
KK77
10/02/2011, 11:34 AM
May they rest in peace.
the 12 th man
10/02/2011, 11:54 AM
The picture says it all,RIP.
brendy_éire
10/02/2011, 12:51 PM
A Barcelona airline was operating the flight, Flightline BCN.

Mad to think that two people walked away from it.
horton
10/02/2011, 1:38 PM
RIP, horrible to think what the people on board went through.
dahamsta
10/02/2011, 3:09 PM
Sorry now for straying from the direct point, but RTE must be in a bad way if they need to break from regularly scheduled TV for what... 2 hours for this? The information available at the end of their "special" was exactly the same as at the start. A ticker would have produced exactly the same result.
Colbert Report
10/02/2011, 4:58 PM
Who is to blame for this?
peadar1987
10/02/2011, 5:15 PM
Who is to blame for this?


From what I heard, it was too foggy for the plane to land with the on-board systems they had. It seems to be a combination of mistakes by the operator, and air traffic control. Still early days yet though.

I got in an argument with some people on www.not606.com who thought it was hilarious to joke about it. Tossers!
Magicme
10/02/2011, 5:36 PM
Hope my mum hadn't heard this news before her flight to Florida or she would have been freaking.
dahamsta
10/02/2011, 6:26 PM
No speculation on who's to blame here please. Wait for the report or an authoritative opinion, or do your own speculation in the pub.

(That means someone who actually knows what they're talking about. No-one in the Irish media qualifies.)
thischarmingman
10/02/2011, 7:05 PM
www.not606.com
What else were you expecting?
backstothewall
10/02/2011, 9:24 PM
Martin McAleese's cousin is amongst the dead. The nationalities of the dead were...

3 x UK
2 x Ireland
1 x Spain (the pilot)
peadar1987
11/02/2011, 12:45 AM
What else were you expecting?


Good point. Unfortunately it's where all the Stoke fans from the old 606 board are, so I'm trying to stick it out. Not easy when the "general chat" board is full of people who think "freedom of speech" means "slagging the handicapped on the internet doesn't make me a ******".

Anyway, back on topic. My deepest sympathy for everyone affected by the crash.