Garda have released a statement on the plane crash.
15:00, Thu, Nov 20, 2025 Updated: 15:00, Thu, Nov 20, 2025
A plane has crashed into a field near Waterford Airport in Ireland (Image: Shaun's Aviation X/Twitter)
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A plane has crashed near Waterford Airport in Ireland, with police and emergency services rushing to the scene. The light aircraft came down shortly before 1pm today. It is believed four people were on board at the time.
A Garda spokesperson confirmed to CorkBeo: "Gardaí and emergency services are currently at the scene of a collision involving a light aircraft at a location near Tramore, Co. Waterford, which occurred at approximately 12:50pm this afternoon, Thursday 20th November 2025. As this is a live and ongoing operation, no further information is available at this time."
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An air accident investigation has been launched by the Department of Transport following today's incident.
The investigation will be handled by the Department's Air Accident Investigation Unit with support from the Irish Aviation Authority
A spokesperson for the IAA told CorkBeo: "We are aware of an accident involving an aircraft in Co. Waterford. The Air Accident Investigation Unit of the Department of Transport (AAIU) is investigating the incident with the relevant emergency services.
"The AAIU is responsible for investigating accidents and serious incidents as defined in ICAO Annex 13 and associated implementing regulations. The Irish Aviation Authority will support the AAIU in its investigation into the accident"
The AAIU has been notified of an accident involving a twin-engined general aviation aircraft in the vicinity of Lisselan Co. Waterford this afternoon. The AAIU is deploying a team of four inspectors of air accidents to the accident site to commence an investigation.
Flightradar24 say the aircraft registered as EI-HPY was on its way to Béziers Cap d’Agde Airport after taking off from Sligo Airport.
However, the twin-engined plane turned around approximately 50 kilometres off the southern coast of Ireland and headed back in the direction of Waterford Airport.
The flight tracking service has released an image showing the plane turning around.
The plane turning around in an attempt to land at Waterford Airport (Image: Flightradar24 )
Pilot declared an emergency around 100 miles off the south east coast
The pilot declared an emergency approximately 100 miles off the south east coast on a flightpath that would have taken him towards the west coast of France and then on to the Mediteranean coast.
The plane then turned around and attempted to make it make it to airport at Waterford.
As it crossed back over the coast the plane began to lose height rapidly and it came down in a field.
A Garda spokesperson confirmed to CorkBeo: "Gardaí and emergency services are currently at the scene of a collision involving a light aircraft at a location near Tramore, Co. Waterford, which occurred at approximately 12:50pm this afternoon, Thursday 20th November 2025.
"As this is a live and ongoing operation, no further information is available at this time."
Good afternoon. My name is Lauran O'Toole and welcome to our live blog. A plane has crashed near Waterford Airport in Ireland, it is believed four people were on board at the time.
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