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Article: Pilots were on routine training flight
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- October 13, 2009
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A MAJOR emergency services operation was due to begin at first
light this morning to recover the bodies of two Air Corps pilots
killed during a training flight in Co Mayo yesterday and to
establish what caused the crash.
The loss of the two pilots on what should have been a routine
training flight from Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel, Co Dublin,
across the country is one of the worst tragedies ever for the Air
Corps.
The Defence Forces, Department of Transport and Irish Aviation
Authority will this morning have teams of investigators on the
ground trying to determine how the five-year-old Pilatus PC-9 came
down in a mountainous remote region west of Cong.
The circumstances leading to the loss ...