Updated / Thursday, 24 Dec 2020
11:40
An ambulance at the scene of the tragedy at Clonbullogue, Co Offaly in May, 2018
A verdict of accidental death due to massive trauma as the result of an air accident was the decision of the jury at an inquest in Tullamore today into the deaths of pilot Niall Bowditch and seven-year-old passenger Kacper Kacprzak at Clonbullogue, Co Offaly on 13 May 2018.
The inquest heard that both victims suffered severe head trauma and multiple fractures to their upper and lower limbs.
The airplane was discovered embedded in a bog near Walsh Island in east Offaly after it crashed while returning from a parachute jump.
Accidental death verdict in Offaly plane crash inquest
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A verdict of accidental death due to massive trauma as the result of an air accident was the decision of the jury at an inquest in Tullamore on Friday into the deaths of pilot Niall Bowditch and seven-year-old passenger Kacper Kacprzak at Clonbullogue, Co Offaly on May 13 2018.
The inquest heard that both victims of the accident suffered severe head trauma and multiple fractures to their upper and lower limbs.
The airplane was discovered embedded in a bog near Walsh Island in east Offaly after it crashed while returning from a parachute jump. It had “virtually nose dived into the ground” and had been “flying vertically like a torpedo” according to one witness.