AN inquiry into the deaths of an air ambulance paramedic and a pilot is to be held two years after the horrific crash.

Paramedic John McCreanor and pilot Guy Henderson were killed when their aircraft crashed into the sea off the west coast of Scotland in 2005.

Now a Fatal Accident Inquiry will be held which may give the families involved answers. The inquiry is expected to begin on Monday, April 2, at Paisley Sheriff Court.

In December 2005 the remains of pilot Guy Henderson, 40, were recovered from the water off the Mull of Kintyre nine months after the accident.

He was the pilot of an air ambulance which plunged into the sea on March 15.

Mr Henderson, from Broxburn, West Lothian, and paramedic John McCreanor, 35, of Paisley were flying an Islander plane on a mission to pick up a sick child in Campbeltown, Argyll, when it plunged into the sea.

An accident report last year said pilot fatigue, a heavy workload and a lack of recent flying practice may have contributed to the crash.