Breaking news: Swansea City players were involved in a serious plane crash accident and died instantly. This is devastating.

Breaking news: Swansea City players were involved in a serious plane crash accident and died instantly. This is devastating.

Breaking: Swansea City players were killed instantly in a terrible plane crash. This is tragic.

It is still the deadliest aviation accident in Irish history, even after 56 years. When the aircraft carrying them crashed into the Irish Sea, 61 people perished. Of those, 47 people’s bodies have never been located. People often want to know what caused a deadly aviation accident, and in this instance, the west coast of Wales was blamed.

Aer Lingus, an Irish airline, took possession of a Vickers Viscount aircraft, which departed Cork early on Sunday, March 24, 1968, bound for London. At first, the trip was pretty regular and ordinary until one of the crew members sent out a message via the airplane, saying, “Twelve thousand feet descending, spinning rapidly.” That was the last time Aer Lingus Flight 712 was ever heard from.

Thirteen bodies were found in the water in the vicinity of Tuskar Rock, a set of rocks with a lighthouse located about seven miles off the coast of County Wexford in southeast Ireland, during the course of the following several days. Later, a 14th body was found. Thirty-three Irish people, nine Swiss people, six Belgians, five UK citizens, two US citizens, and two more Swedish people were among the passengers on board. By registering here, you can receive the most recent WalesOnline newsletters sent to your email address at no cost.

Two years were spent investigating what caused the catastrophe, but to the dismay of the impacted families, no clear conclusion could be reached from the study, and the reason for the tragedy has never been completely established. For many years, a prominent theory circulated, and was accepted as fact, that the flight was inadvertently downed by a test missile fired from the Ministry of Defence base at Aberporth in Ceredigion (then Cardiganshire). This base was thought to be the most sophisticated missile testing facility in the UK in the late 1960s.

The bereaved family suffered maltreatment in their daily lives as a result of the absence of clear explanations. According to David O’Beirne, son of the pilot on that fateful aircraft, Barney O’Beirne, “conspiracies came to life because of the lack of facts,” as reported by the Irish Mirror. “There was absolutely unjust and baseless abuse, threats, and intimidation directed at my mother and other employees. The pilot and co-pilot were held accountable by many for the incident. For my mother, it was unbearably difficult. She was out to supper the night my father died. “How dare you? Your husband is responsible for all those deaths.” Someone hit her. Desire fewer advertisements? Install the WalesOnline Premium app on your Android or Apple device.

The fact that no clear answer was offered for decades led to the connection to west Wales and the notion that the British military was responsible for the disaster. Furthermore, some of the language used in the report that investigator Richard O’Sullivan wrote after the incident led to more rumors. It said as follows: “It is impossible to avoid the conclusion that there was another aircraft nearby. There are no aircraft missing reports, but it’s still possible that an unmanned aircraft—a missile or a drone target aircraft—was present.