The 39 Irish soccer fans who were stranded in Cyprus after they refused to get on an aircraft over safety fears are to return home tomorrow.
Supporters of the Ireland national soccer team in the pool after they refused to re-board a Helios Airways flight
Space has been found to accommodate them on a Cypriot Airlines and an Aer Lingus flight tonight, and they are expected to arrive in Dublin at 11.10am tomorrow.
They were due to fly home on Sunday evening, but the Helios Airways Boeing 737 plane they were travelling on turned back after 20 minutes in the air with technical difficulties with its air conditioning.
Tony Bernie, of the travel company used by the Irish fans
It is believed similar difficulties with the air conditioning were experienced when a Helios Boeings crashed into a hillside near Marathon in Greece on August 14th after suffering decompression and a disruption of the air supply to the cabin and cockpit.
The flight on Sunday evening was "a terrifying experience", said Tony Bernie, the founder of Bernie Travel, the travel company used by the Irish fans.
"The air conditioning system failed, there was water leaking and it suddenly got very cold. It was like what happened with another Helios aircraft which crashed during the summer."
It has also emerged that the aircraft that turned back on Sunday evening had been forced to return to Cyprus on Friday only 55 minutes into a journey to London Heathrow.