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[10] (pp127-129) Rescue 115, the Shannon-based Coast Guard helicopter, was dispatched to the area to aid in the search for the other three crew members, along with a CASA CN-235 maritime patrol aircraft from the Irish Air Corps. [12] On 18 March, the funeral for Captain Dara Fitzpatrick was celebrated, in Glencullen, County Dublin. [13] [14] [15]
Coast Guard personnel include full-time paid employees, [22] and unpaid volunteers. [23] For example, a member of the Coast Guard, Caitriona Lucas, who died while on a rescue/recovery mission in County Clare in 2016, was a volunteer. [24] Not all Irish Coast Guard members have enforcement powers – only some officers under warrant. [citation ...
CHC S-61 operated for the Irish Coast Guard. CHC Helicopter serves as the sole provider of Search and Rescue helicopter services to the Irish Coast Guard, where it had operated a fleet of six Sikorsky S-61N helicopters based in Dublin, Shannon, Waterford, and Sligo. This fleet has now been replaced by 5 Sikorsky S-92 Helibus.
An inquest into the deaths of four Irish Coast Guard aircrew in the Rescue 116 helicopter crash has heard how the visibility in the moments before the crash was “very poor and dense”.
On March 14, 2017, a S-92 operated by CHC Helicopter under contract to the Irish Coast Guard crashed off the west coast of Ireland with four crew members on board. Three of the crew were initially missing. Captain Dara Fitzpatrick was recovered from the water but later died in hospital. [86] The helicopter crashed into an unmapped island in ...
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Dara Fitzpatrick (15 October 1971 – 14 March 2017) was the Irish Coast Guard's most senior helicopter search and rescue pilot. [1] As a Captain, she piloted the Dublin-based Rescue 116 helicopter. She was killed in the 2017 Irish Coast Guard Rescue 116 crash in March 2017.
Sligo Airport is the home of Rescue 118, the Irish Coast Guard Helicopter which has served the north-west of Ireland since 2004. The base operates a Sikorsky S-92A helicopter 24 hours, 365 days a year (which replaced the previously used S-61N on 1 July 2013). It deals with many types of incidents, such as cliff rescues, hospital transfers and ...