Gardai have confirmed that a man and a seven-year-old boy have died following a plane crash in County Offaly.
Their bodies have been recovered tonight and brought to the Midland Regional Hospital in Tullamore for a post mortem examination.
The light aircraft crashed into bogland near Edenderry yesterday afternoon after taking off earlier from an airstrip at Clonbullogue with 16 parachutists on board - all of whom made their jump, before the plane was spotted in difficulty.
Post mortem examinations will be carried out today.
A team of air accident investigators are also on site to try and find out exactly how this tragedy happened.
Air accident investigation underway into #offaly plane crash which claimed the lives of a 7 year old boy & the pilot pic.twitter.com/yWyKqySYFc
— Paul Quinn (@pdquinn7) May 14, 2018
