Coastguard search continues for missing colleagues of late pilot

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Sunday, 19 March 2017 18:23

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The search continues for the three colleagues of the late Dara Fitzpatrick of the Irish coastguard.

Her helicopter crashed off the coast of Mayo on Tuesday morning, and hundreds attended her funeral on Saturday.

A ship with new hi-tech equipment has helped a Coastguard team scan the ocean bed around the suspected crash site.

Heavy swells in recent days had prevented boats from getting near the site where a signal from the black box was detected.

The Coast Guard's Declan Geoghegan says the weather finally gave them a break today.

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