Plane Crash at Cork Airport

Papa_Lazarou

Must say well done to the emergency services. They were on the ball today. Saw them training for the emergency plan last year in the city and im sure they hoped to never have to implement it. They were out within mins closing the motorways to allow the ambulances to get to the hospital as quick as possible and showed how well they've been trained. R.I.P to those who've died.

SeaFields

Unbelievable out of RTE alright. Their political correspondant on to tell us how each party dealt with the breaking news. Un-fcuking-real.

baldbear

mariaf24 wrote: »

RIP to those who lost their lives.... And to the loved ones it doesn't bear thinking about.

MAybe not the time to be talking like this but RTE are the pits.
I first read of the tragedy here on boards at around 11am, so immediately turned on RTE only to discover an episode of Shortland Street was playing.
So i switched to Sky news and yes of course they are covering it, quite accuratley too it would seem. After a few minutes RTE did cover the story but were reporting much further behind than Sky news.
Just amazing that the main Irish broadcaster takes well over an hour to report a national tragedy while international stations were already on top of it.
Yet if Brian Cowen sneezes it's a newsflash...

Maybe RTE were waiting so the familys get to know what was happening before they found out on the TV, SKY news are low lifes and don't care as long as they get the story first. Thank god the plane wasn't full.

mariaf24

baldbear wrote: »

Maybe RTE were waiting so the familys get to know what was happening before they found out on the TV, SKY news are low lifes and don't care as long as they get the story first. Thank god the plane wasn't full.

No because it was on the RTE website at the time.

Loopie

God love them all. I presummed a light aircraft, pilot walks away type of story but was shocked when i read about it.

RIP

Mental Mickey

baldbear wrote: »

Maybe RTE were waiting so the familys get to know what was happening before they found out on the TV, SKY news are low lifes and don't care as long as they get the story first. Thank god the plane wasn't full.

Sky News are sensationalist, tabloid ****ers.

Brenireland

Rumours that plane struck flock of birds,would it have caused that do?,I know it would have caused slight damage to the engines but not that bad.

Jesus Wept

mariaf24 wrote: »

RIP to those who lost their lives.... And to the loved ones it doesn't bear thinking about.

MAybe not the time to be talking like this but RTE are the pits.
I first read of the tragedy here on boards at around 11am, so immediately turned on RTE only to discover an episode of Shortland Street was playing.
So i switched to Sky news and yes of course they are covering it, quite accuratley too it would seem. After a few minutes RTE did cover the story but were reporting much further behind than Sky news.
Just amazing that the main Irish broadcaster takes well over an hour to report a national tragedy while international stations were already on top of it.
Yet if Brian Cowen sneezes it's a newsflash...

They had already reported by the time you tuned in at 11am.
They aren't a 24 hour rolling news channel.

I do hate them but not because of this and I don't understand your grievance.

JerryHandbag

My God those pics are shocking, they really didnt have a hope

jd007

mariaf24 wrote: »

RIP to those who lost their lives.... And to the loved ones it doesn't bear thinking about.

MAybe not the time to be talking like this but RTE are the pits.
I first read of the tragedy here on boards at around 11am, so immediately turned on RTE only to discover an episode of Shortland Street was playing.
So i switched to Sky news and yes of course they are covering it, quite accuratley too it would seem. After a few minutes RTE did cover the story but were reporting much further behind than Sky news.
Just amazing that the main Irish broadcaster takes well over an hour to report a national tragedy while international stations were already on top of it.
Yet if Brian Cowen sneezes it's a newsflash...

RTE isn't a news station. Of course Sky news are going to have coverage before them when they're on 24/7. I do agree the political crap is sickening on RTE.

The_Kew_Tour

RIP to all those dead and thinking of all the relatives.

Sad day.

Hogzy

baldbear wrote: »

SKY news are low lifes and don't care as long as they get the story first.

Thats there job. RTE putting up political commentators and showing political condolences is a disgrace. The general election shouldnt be further from peoples thoughts at this stage.

PeterIanStaker

This is awful news, RIP.

calex71

Amateur hour over on tv3 Elaine Crowley is well out of her depth, I'd laugh about if not for the seriousness of this :mad:

Mental Mickey

Hogzy wrote: »

Thats there job. RTE putting up political commentators and showing political condolences is a disgrace. The general election shouldnt be further from peoples thoughts at this stage.

ALL media are a disgrace.

biko

Brenireland wrote: »

Rumours that plane struck flock of birds,would it have caused that do?,I know it would have caused slight damage to the engines but not that bad.

On the radio right now they don't know the cause.
Maybe best to wait for the investigation before listening to rumours?

Brenireland

RTE Twitter:

The aircraft which crashed at Cork Airport was a 19-seater. It departed from Belfast at 8.12am and was due to land in Cork at 9.10am

calex71

Sky were even running a banner to email or mms footage

Hogzy

Mental Mickey wrote: »

ALL media are a disgrace.

I disagree. Its their job to report on major incidents like this. If the media were not reporting on this I guarantee you the mayhem on Corks roads would be WAYYYYY worse.

UpCork

So sad.

All crashes are sad but I find this particularly surreal given that I know Cork airport so well. Appears some of the people on board are from Cork. Bishop John Buckley was just on the news there and said when he heard of the tragedy we went up to the airport and met with some of the relatives who were waiting for the flight to land

Mental Mickey

calex71 wrote: »

Amateur hour over on tv3 Elaine Crowley is well out of her depth, I'd laugh about if not for the seriousness of this :mad:

TV3 are a **** "news" station. Same as Sky.

Mental Mickey

calex71 wrote: »

Sky were even running a banner to email or mms footage

No surprise there. :mad:

mariaf24

The-Rigger wrote: »

They had already reported by the time you tuned in at 11am.
They aren't a 24 hour rolling news channel.

I do hate them but not because of this and I don't understand your grievance.

Your posts make me laugh.

You are always so miserable and have nit picked my posts before. I dont know what sunshine and lollipops forum is but it's ironic :pac:

I posted my opinion, i never asked for yours...

As i said RTE are our national broadcaster yet were not as quick on this story as Sky news. They were reporting 8 fatalities when only 4 had been confirmed by Cork County Council (Source: Sky News)
And yes I agree with those who have said Sky News are sensationalist ***but the fact is that if we want accurate up to date news we have to tune in there!
RTE are not capable of covering anything which does not involve Irish politics.

This is irrelevant anyway.

I'm sure there are alot of lives utterly destroyed today and our thoughts should be with them.

Kimono-Girl

Hogzy wrote: »

Sky news has excellent coverage i must say

sky news just said Kerry was north of cork???
they have so much wrong information how is that considered excellent?

Hogzy wrote: »

I disagree. Its their job to report on major incidents like this. If the media were not reporting on this I guarantee you the mayhem on Corks roads would be WAYYYYY worse.

+1 i agree.....

Minstrel27

RIP to anyone unfortunate enough to die in this crash this morning

Basq wrote: »

RTÉ should be careful with stating 8 dead and several injured.. they never mentioned it was unconfirmed while I was watching.

I heard them say it was unconfirmed several times.

Mental Mickey

mariaf24 wrote: »

Your posts make me laugh.

You are always so miserable and have nit picked my posts before. I dont know what sunshine and lollipops forum is but it's ironic :pac:

I posted my opinion, i never asked for yours...

As i said RTE are our national broadcaster yet were not as quick on this story as Sky news. They were reporting 8 fatalities when only 4 had been confirmed by Cork County Council (Source: Sky News)
And yes I agree with those who have said Sky News are sensationalist ***but the fact is that if we want accurate up to date news we have to tune in there!
RTE are not capable of covering anything which does not involve Irish politics.

This is irrelevant anyway.

I'm sure there are alot of lives utterly destroyed today and our thoughts should be with them.

Agree.

DingChavez

mariaf24 wrote: »

RIP to those who lost their lives.... And to the loved ones it doesn't bear thinking about.

MAybe not the time to be talking like this but RTE are the pits.
I first read of the tragedy here on boards at around 11am, so immediately turned on RTE only to discover an episode of Shortland Street was playing.
So i switched to Sky news and yes of course they are covering it, quite accuratley too it would seem. After a few minutes RTE did cover the story but were reporting much further behind than Sky news.
Just amazing that the main Irish broadcaster takes well over an hour to report a national tragedy while international stations were already on top of it.
Yet if Brian Cowen sneezes it's a newsflash...

Sky News were getting their information from RTE was I was watching it. And its not international news to them since it was a UK plane flying from the UK.

And they're a 24 hour news channel. Unlike RTE.

Cú Giobach

Most likely cause would have been the fog.
Visibility was nearly zero in parts around that area earlier, and fog banks were moving in very very quickly.
Probably ran off the runway onto the grass and flipped.

Edit: Just on RTE, he didn't land on the center of the runway.

DubiousV

R.I.P

Mental Mickey

Kimono-Girl wrote: »

sky news just said Kerry was north of cork???
they have so much wrong information how is that considered excellent?



+1 i agree.....

Sky News need to realise that there are countries outside of their ****ing "kingdom".

Absurdum

Brenireland wrote: »

Rumours that plane struck flock of birds,would it have caused that do?,I know it would have caused slight damage to the engines but not that bad.

It's possible that can happen but it is highly unlikely because (a) the visibility was so low (so very few if any people could have witnessed this), (b)birds tend to not fly in cloud and (c) the aircraft was a turboprop which tend to not suffer as much damage from bird strikes as jets

audidiesel

Rip to those unfortunate enough to have been killed in this :-(

baldbear

SKY news are showing the bodys been brought away on stretchers. Terrible sight to be looking at, why do they have to show that....:mad:

hondasam

who cares who reported it first or who has the best coverage.

condolences to all involved.

RIP.

dolphin city

Kimono-Girl wrote: »

sky news just said Kerry was north of cork???
they have so much wrong information how is that considered excellent?

ahhhh kerry IS north of cork!!!

AfterDusk

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

Manx2: In before RyanAir.

Absolutely disgusting! Hope you get banned

Brenireland

Absurdum wrote: »

It's possible that can happen but it is highly unlikely because (a) the visibility was so low (so very few if any people could have witnessed this), (b)birds tend to not fly in cloud and (c) the aircraft was a turboprop which tend to not suffer as much damage from bird strikes as jets

it is unreal,After the harshest winter & after hundreds of delayed flights,on a mild spring morning with perfectly safe landing strips,fog has caused such a horrific accident,Now looking at t.v it is unreal what the fog has left behind.

Mental Mickey

baldbear wrote: »

SKY news are showing the bodys been brought away on stretchers. Terrible sight to be looking at, why do they have to show that....:mad:

Because people do watch it.

calex71

neil2304 wrote: »

Absolutely disgusting! Hope you get banned

Ha good old quote for exposing people how subsequently delete posts

Kimono-Girl

dolphin city wrote: »

Kimono-Girl wrote: »

sky news just said Kerry was north of cork???
they have so much wrong information how is that considered excellent?

ahhhh kerry IS north of cork!!!

more north west! and they were indicating northeast. what they said was the nearest airport was further to the west in shannon. and Kerry to the north was too far!

George83

Very sad.

RIP.

dr.bollocko

Killer Pigeon don't post in this thread again.

Edit:(this thread ban lifted following post deletion and apology)

El Horseboxo

You see it so many times throughout the year in various airports around the world. Small plane tries multiple attempts to land in fog and then crashes. In a small country in Ireland they were probably less than 20 minutes away from Waterford or even Shannon.

Debthree

I am in the flight path here in Cork. A local woman on radio here said she was out walking and heard a plane overhead and it didn't sound right - it was too loud, she couldn't describe it, just said it sounded different to other planes. 10 or 20 minutes later she heard the same sound, the same plane overhead, again it didn't sound right, she knew something was amiss.

I can't imagine the horror those people went through on that plane knowing something was very seriously wrong.

adamski8

Brenireland wrote: »

it is unreal,After the harshest winter & after hundreds of delayed flights,on a mild spring morning with perfectly safe landing strips,fog has caused such a horrific accident,Now looking at t.v it is unreal what the fog has left behind.

well i think you'll find that people in the aviation business will say that fog is the most dangerous thing for aircraft

hondasam

baldbear wrote: »

SKY news are showing the bodys been brought away on stretchers. Terrible sight to be looking at, why do they have to show that....:mad:

maybe because people like you are watching it. we see a lot worse on TV from other countries after disasters.

Killer Pigeon

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Killer Pigeon don't post in this thread again.

I apologise I deleted the post.

stop

El Horseboxo wrote: »

You see it so many times throughout the year in various airports around the world. Small plane tries multiple attempts to land in fog and then crashes. In a small country in Ireland they were probably less than 20 minutes away from Waterford or even Shannon.

For all we know fog was worse at those airports.

Too early for speculation.

445279.ie

Just hear this, very sad.

Text my brother cos he works in the airport to see if he was working. He's up there and said he'd ring in a while.

RIP

Mental Mickey

445279.ie wrote: »

Just hear this, very sad.

Text my brother cos he works in the airport to see if he was working. He's up there and said he'd ring in a while.

RIP

Why do we need to know that?