An investigation is under way after a small plane made an emergency landing at Carrigeen, Co Kilkenny.<\/p>\n
The incident occurred near Carrigeen, Mooncoin, close to Waterford, at around 12.40pm.<\/p>\n
The nose of the aircraft appears to have been significantly damaged. However, no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
The Atlantic Flight Training Academy has confirmed that one of its pilots carried out a “precautionary landing” in a field near Waterford Airport after they experienced a “rough-running engine”.<\/p>\n
It said that its instructor and a student on board were not injured.<\/p>\n
In a statement, a spokesperson for the Atlantic Flight Training Academy said: “A Cessna 172 was routing back on a routine training flight towards Waterford when the pilot experienced a rough-running engine.<\/p>\n
“He informed Air Traffic Control in Waterford and advised that he had identified a suitable landing site in close proximity.<\/p>\n
“The pilot positioned the aircraft for landing and carried out a precautionary landing in a suitable grass field, in accordance with standard operation procedures, north of Waterford Airport.<\/p>\n
“There were no injuries to either the instructor or the student. We can confirm neither attended hospital.<\/p>\n
“Both were assessed and cleared on site and have safely returned to Waterford Airport Base,” the statement concluded.<\/p>\n
The Irish Coast Guard confirmed that rescue helicopter R117 attended the scene after a mayday call was made to Waterford Airport.<\/p>\n
The National Ambulance Service, local fire and rescue services, and members of the garda\u00ed also attended the scene.<\/p>\n
The R117 helicopter then returned the two people who had been on board the light aircraft to Waterford Airport.<\/p>\n
The Air Accident Investigation Unit is the lead agency in the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is under way after a small plane made an emergency landing at Carrigeen, Co Kilkenny. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-186507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186507","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=186507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}