Tributes paid to four helicopter heroes on the 20th anniversary of their deaths

The Irish Coast Guard will be leading tributes to four helicopter heroes on the 20th anniversary of their deaths.

Tributes paid to four helicopter heroes on the 20th anniversary of their deaths

The Irish Coast Guard will be leading tributes to four helicopter heroes on the 20th anniversary of their deaths.

Captain Mick Baker, 28, from Wexford, Corporal Niall Byrne, 24 and Captain Dave O’Flaherty, 30, from Dublin and Sergeant Paddy Mooney, 34, from Meath were killed in July 1999, when their Dauphin helicopter collided with a sand dune in dense fog in Tramore, Co Waterford.

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