No sign of crewmen as Rescue 116 helicopter lifted

No trace has been found of the two missing crewmen from Rescue 116 after it was lifted from the seabed off Blackrock Island, Co Mayo.

Naval service divers attached lifting equipment to the wreckage of the aircraft yesterday in an effort to bring the helicopter to the surface and locate the bodies of the two missing crew members Paul Ormsby and Ciarán Smith.

However, there was no trace of the crew members after the aircraft was successfully raised from the seabed