{"id":151874,"date":"2025-11-21T12:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/151874\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T12:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:09:07","slug":"air-accident-investigators-return-to-waterford-crash-site-as-probe-into-fatal-incident-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/151874\/","title":{"rendered":"Air accident investigators return to Waterford crash site as probe into fatal incident continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of air accident investigators have returned to the site of the fatal light aircraft crash in Tramore.<\/p>\n<p>The Vulcanair twin engine plane is to be removed today to Gormanston in Meath, to a wreckage examination facility operated by the Air Accident Investigation Unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A post mortem examination is expected to be carried out on the remains of the pilot, who lost his life when the aircraft nosedived into a field close to the end of the runway of Waterford airport shortly before 1pm yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">He was the sole occupant of the plane, which left Sligo Airport shortly before 11.30am and turned back towards Waterford Airport at around 12.20pm, according to flight radar data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The aircraft was due to travel to Beziers in southern France, but did a U-turn some 50km off the south-east coast. The crash happened after the plane attempted to make an emergency landing at the airport, having declared an emergency over the south coast shortly before 1pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Air accident investigators will analyse any attempts at communication made from the aircraft in a bid to piece together what led to the fatal crash. They will also sift through wreckage at the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">More than 30 emergency personnel responded to the crash at Lisselan, on the coast road between Tramore and Dunmore East, 3km outside Tramore. Traffic was diverted as emergency services worked at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Responders included garda\u00ed, the National Ambulance Service, fire service personnel, and members of the Irish Coast Guard. The air accident investigation unit confirmed shortly after the incident that four investigators were being dispatched to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">As darkness fell on the site yesterday evening, the plane remained in the field, with the front of it severely damaged by the impact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">A Garda statement issued Thursday evening said: \u201cGarda\u00ed and emergency services are currently at the scene of a light aircraft collision which occurred at Tramore, Co Waterford at approximately 12.50pm this afternoon, Thursday, November 20, 2025. Initial reports indicate that there was one fatality, the sole occupant of the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cThe air accident investigation unit is at the scene and the Irish Aviation Authority has been notified. The scene is being preserved and investigations are ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Garda\u00ed say their role will be to prepare a file for the coroner\u2019s court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Waterford David Cullinane said a rescue helicopter was among emergency services responding to the crash. He said it was a \u201cshock\u201d to the local area, adding that the community\u2019s thoughts are with whoever was on the plane.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">His party colleague, councillor Jim Griffin said he was in traffic close to the scene when he saw emergency vehicles responding to the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A team of air accident investigators have returned to the site of the fatal light aircraft crash in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[43982,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-151874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-air-travel","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}