The two men who died in a plane crash in Co. Kildare on Thursday night have been named. The remains of the wreckage have now been removed to the Air Accident Investigation Units facility in Gormanston, Co. Meath, and will be further examined today. Air accident investigators have said heavy rainfall has not helped their efforts to discover the cause of the aircraft crash in County Kildare on Thursday night. Superintendent Martin Walker (right) along with Howard Hughes (centre) and John Owens, of the Air Accident Investigation Unit, speak to the media near the scene in Belan, Moone, in Co. Kildare. Pic: Brian Lawless/PA Wire"Indications are there was no communication from the aircraft, nor would the pilot have been obliged to have done so.

Source: Irish Examiner June 15, 2019 07:27 UTC