Body found in search for missing Coast Guard helicopter
The helicopter crashed into the Atlantic over a week ago.
Last updated 25th Mar 2017
The body was in the cockpit of the helicopter wreckage on the seabed in 40m of water
Yesterday the black box was uncovered in searches.
The search is centred around Blackrock Lighthouse - around 13km offshore from Blacksod, where the aircraft was intended to land to refuel early on Tuesday morning moments before it disappeared without warning.
Captain Dara Fitzpatrick, 45, was pulled from the Atlantic off the Co Mayo coast - around six miles (10km) west of Blacksod - deemed critically-ill, but later confirmed dead.
She was the mother of a three-year-old son.
Her sister Niamh Fitzpatrick used social media to pay tribute to the pilot who had worked for the Irish Coast Gaurd for 20 years.
The other three crew are chief pilot Mark Duffy from Dundalk, Co Louth, as well as Ciaran Smith and Paul Ormsby, both winchmen from north Co Dublin.
The body has not yet been identified.
The Dublin-based helicopter crew was providing cover for another Coast Guard helicopter involved in an early-morning evacuation of a crewman needing urgent medical attention on a UK-registered trawler, approximately 150 miles (240km) west of Eagle Island in Co Mayo.
It had flown directly to the scene from the Irish capital, travelled around 10 miles (16km) out to sea, then turned back towards land to refuel.
There was no indication of any danger moments before it vanished, with the crew's final transmission: "Shortly landing at Blacksod.''
Visibility was described as not good at the time.
When the helicopter failed to arrive, a Mayday signal went out and Coast Guard helicopters from Sligo and Shannon along with the Air Corps maritime patrol aircraft Casa were tasked to the scene.
They were joined by lifeboats from Ballyglass and Achill, the Naval Service's LE Roisin ship and five local fishing vessels.
Officials from the Air Accident Investigation Unit are also at the scene carrying out a full investigation.