An Irish Coast Guard helicopter was forced to leave a crew member and an injured fisherman on a trawler off the West Kerry coast yesterday, after encountering mechanical trouble.
According to the Irish Times, the Air Corps put its aircraft on standby amid fears Rescue 115, a Sikorsky S92 helicopter, would have to ditch in the sea on its way back to base.
The S92 was the same helicopter model involved in the Rescue 116 disaster in 2017, which resulted in the deaths of the four crew members aboard.
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Rescue 115 was responding to a distress call on Sunday morning involving an injured fisherman aboard a vessel, northwest of Dingle.
