Investigators have completed an initial examination of the site of a fatal plane crash in which a person died near Waterford Airport.

Emergency responders, including Rescue 117, Gardaí, the Fire Service and Ambulance Service, rushed to the scene at Lisselan near Tramore, after the light civil aircraft crashed at approximately 12:50pm on Thursday.

The victim was the sole occupant of the plane, according to An Garda Síochána.

In a statement to WLR News, the Gardaí said: “The body was removed last night to the mortuary at University Hospital Waterford. The scene remains preserved. Air Accident Investigators will be on the scene today.”

The privately owned Vulcanair P68C was travelling from Sligo to Béziers in Southern France when it turned around off the south coast and approached Waterford Airport.

The Air Accident Investigation Unit (AAIU) of the Department of Transport deployed four air accident inspectors to the site.

In a statement, it said it had completed its initial examination by 9pm and had exited the site.

It said it would return this morning (Friday) to recover the wreckage to the AAIU’s wreckage examination facility at Gormanston, Co Meath.

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