Tributes have been paid to the seven-year-old boy who died in a plane crash, along with the pilot, in Co Offaly. Tributes have been paid to the seven-year-old boy who died in a plane crash, along with the pilot, in Co Offaly. 'People will do everything they can to help' - tributes to schoolboy (7) who died with pilot in plane tragedyThe boy has been named locally as Kacper Kacprzak, a pupil at Sacred Heart of Jesus NS in Blanchardstown, Dublin. He was killed alongside pilot Niall Bowditch, from the UK, when their plane nose-dived into a forest near Clonbullogue at about 2.30pm on Sunday. Kacper's father Kris is a regular parachutist and instructor with the Irish Parachute Club, and he jumped from the plane shortly before it "torpedoed" to the ground.

Source: Irish Independent May 15, 2018 01:30 UTC