Ordinary day extraordinary heroes lost their lives detailed in new report

Captain Dara Fitzpatrick had dropped her son to creche before heading to work on the day Rescue 116 crashed.

On the day Rescue 116 set out, Captain Dara Fitzpatrick had dropped her son to creche before heading to work for around 1pm.

She got home after 9pm, and was settling into bed, before going back downstairs at around 10.15pm to tell her sister she’d received a call. She returned to the base in Dublin where she and the crew would respond to the call-out.