The Air Accident Investigation Unit and Gardaí are investigating a fatal plane crash in Offaly last night which claimed the lives of two men, one in his 30s and one in his 20s.
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Air Traffic Controllers at Shannon raised the alarm when when the Cessna 150 aircraft disappeared from their screens at around 5 o’clock yesterday evening.
Pilot Niall Doherty from Nenagh in Tipperary and his passenger Damien Deegan from Crinkle in County Offaly were pronounced dead at the scene – when the Light Training Aircraft crashed in a field near Birr.
