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5th January 2012
Air Corps Patrol Assists in Rescue of Injured Fisherman
#RESCUE - The Irish Times reports that an Air Corps maritime patrol aircraft joined a search and rescue mission to evacuate a fisherman off the West Cork coast today.
The Casa CN 235 - one of two operated by the Air Corps - diverted from its daily patrol to provide a communications relay in the operation to rescue an injured crewman from a Spanish fishing boat some 100 miles south of of Castletownbere.
The fisherman was airlifted by an Irish Coast Guard helicopter which at last report was taking him to medical attention in Cork.
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