March 24, 2009
Echo India Alpha Oscar Mike with you. . . Twelve thousand feet, descending, spinning rapidly.
These were the last words heard from the flight deck of the Aer Lingus Viscount St Phelim on March 24th, 1968.
En route from Cork to London, the plane crashed into the Irish Sea near Tuskar Rock, off Co Wexford, at approximately 12.15pm local time. All 61 people on board were killed.
My father was one of them.
No official cause for the crash was ever established. For me, I’m not sure it ever really mattered. The loss and the learning are much the same.
These were the last words heard from the flight deck of the Aer Lingus Viscount St Phelim on March 24th, 1968.
En route from Cork to London, the plane crashed into the Irish Sea near Tuskar Rock, off Co Wexford, at approximately 12.15pm local time. All 61 people on board were killed.
My father was one of them.
No official cause for the crash was ever established. For me, I’m not sure it ever really mattered. The loss and the learning are much the same.
