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Mullinahone Plane Crash

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AN EXPERIENCED pilot managed to call emergency services from his mobile phone after his light aircraft spiralled from the sky and smashed into a field.

Eyewitnesses described how the microlight "went quiet" and looked "in trouble" seconds before the collision.

A teenage boy was the first to find the two pilots in the wreckage of the tiny Pegasus Quantum after it crashed at Ballyduggan near Mullinahone, Co Tipperary.

Gerard Murphy from Co Cork was last night fighting for his life in hospital after he was airlifted from the scene.

Father-of-three Vincent Vaughan (48), who is an experienced pilot and flying instructor, survived the crash with only a broken leg.

It's understood Mr Vaughan made the initial call on his mobile phone to the emergency services, who arrived within minutes. The two men were cut from the wreckage.

The aircraft had taken off from Kilkenny airfield before it got into difficulty at around 11.30am yesterday. Both men were qualified pilots and there were dual controls in the plane.

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