Three people escape injury in plane crash

August 1992

Three people had a very lucky escape on Sunday afternoon when the private plane in which they were travelling crash-landed at Castlehayestown, Taghmon.

The four-seater single-engined plane crashed around 4.30 p.m. on the land of Ned Nolan, and caused great commotion locally, with people visiting the scene to have a look at it over the following couple of days.

The aircraft clipped two ditches on either side of a lane with its undercarriage before coming down in the field. It seems that the pilot was trying to land in the big field, which is fairly level.

The plane had left Waterford Regional Airport about an hour before it crashed, en route to a private airstrip in Co. Wexford.

There was a considerable amount of damage caused to the undercarriage of the plane, which was removed from the scene on Wednesday.