Latest: Searches continue for Coast Guard crewmen after helicopter recovered from sea

Latest: Searches are to continue for two missing Irish Coast Guard crew members after a major operation to lift their helicopter from the sea failed to locate them.

Latest: Searches continue for Coast Guard crewmen after helicopter recovered from sea
Sun, 02 Apr, 2017 - 09:20

Update 9pm: Searches are to continue for two missing Irish Coast Guard crew members after a major operation to lift their helicopter from the sea failed to locate them.

The wreckage of the Coast Guard helicopter was lifted from the Atlantic seabed on Sunday evening by search crews.

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