Plane crash at Cork Airport

**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/...reaking19.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/...reaking19.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

**Mark Breen** · 10/02/2011, 11:21 AM

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_�ire** · 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

Originally Posted by Colbert Report

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

Originally Posted by peadar1987

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

Originally Posted by thischarmingman

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.