An Air Corps officer filmed a pilot colleague beginning his take-off from a midlands training school just seconds before the aircraft crashed, killing the pilot instantly.
The death of Second Lieut Raymond Heery (21), at the Irish Parachute Club, Clonbulloge, Co Offaly, last May led to military and civil investigations.
An inquest in Tullamore, Co Offaly, yesterday heard that one of the dead pilot's colleagues had a camcorder and was filming the take-off, which ended with the plane flipping over in mid-air and nose-diving on to trees.
After the inquest, Lieut Col Gerry O'Sullivan said that the Air Corps investigation into the death of Lieut Heery was ongoing.
Lieut Heery, from Oldcastle in Co Meath, died at the scene of the accident at the air-strip used by the Air Corps for parachute training at the Irish Parachute Club. The gusts of winds on the day meant they could not do parachute jumps, and Lieut Heery was to fly back to Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel.
Comdt Barry Gatland, a parachute instructor with the Air Corps, said he heard a loud explosion and a woman screaming, and at the end of the runway he saw a ball of flame. On-site firefighters rushed to the scene within seconds, but it was too late to save Lieut Heery, who died almost instantly, according to medical evidence.