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69-year-old critical after Wicklow plane crash

Wicklow - Single engine aircraft crashed
Wicklow - Single engine aircraft crashed

The man who died in yesterday's plane crash in Co Wicklow has been named as 66-year-old Noel Whitney from south Dublin.

The pilot, 69-year-old Dr Michael Slazenger, was critically injured

An air accident investigation is under way into the circumstances of the crash which happened when the single engine aircraft came down on a small private airfield on the Powerscourt Estate.