A major development…
According to RTÉ News, search teams using underwater cameras have located the wreckage of Rescue 116 off the coast of Blackrock Island, a spot close to the location where a signal from the craft’s black box recorder was detected last week.
A more detailed examination of the wreckage is due to follow, with the Air Accident Investigation Unit hopeful that the bodies of the three missing crew members – Captain Mark Duffy, winch operator Paul Ormsby and winchman Ciaran Smith – may be located.
RTÉ reporter Pat McGrath has been reporting from the scene…
Wreckage of Rescue 116 found off Mayo coast – @patmcgrath reports pic.twitter.com/jZhQCssR2z
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) March 22, 2017
More to follow…
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