Rescue 116 operator to review safety systems Legend puts a Spring in D’arcy’s step
Crash probe reveals interim findings into tragic crew deaths
Jerry Springer LEGENDARY TV presenter Jerry Springer leads the line-up for tonight’s Ray D’arcy Show.
The American will appear on the special St Patrick’s Day themed show.
Ray will sit down with Irish sports presenter Michael Lyster to chat about his retirement.
Ireland goalkeeper Darren Randolph will also be in the studio.
And Ray will mark the date by bringing in participants from St Patrick’s Day parades all over the country.
Groups from Newbridge, Cork, Kilkenny, Clane, Limerick, Ashbourne, Carlow, and Portarlington will all drop in.
■ The Ray D’arcy Show airs at 9.45pm on RTE One. IF you’re Posh you expect your son to behave like a gentleman.
Brooklyn Beckham, 19, did just that as he and mum Victoria, 43, left a restaurant in Marylebone, London.
Although in those shades, at night, she maybe needed that helping hand. THE operator of an Irish Coastguard helicopter that crashed killing four crew has been told to review its safety management systems.
Investigators examining the loss of Rescue 116 off the coast of Co Mayo in March last year said they had concerns regarding the “efficacy” of those systems.
While the Air Accident Investigation Unit continues to investigate the crash on Blackrock Island, it published an interim statement yesterday.
The AAIU said operator CHC Ireland should ensure the “design of its processes and procedural adherence are sufficiently robust to maximise the safety dividend”.
The interim statement also recommended the manufacturer of the helicopter involved should revaluate the performance of its flight data recording systems.
The AAIU said Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation should make the necessary “updates/modifications” to ensure that latitude and longitude information stored was based on the most accurate position data available.
In a third recommendation, investigators added Transport Minister Shane Ross should conduct a “thorough review” of search and rescue operations to “ensure there are appropriate processes, resources and personnel in place to provide effective, continuous, comprehensive and independent oversight of all aspects of these operations”.
Rescue 116 crashed on March 14, 2017, with four crew on board after it struck Blackrock Island 12 miles off the Mayo coastline.
The bodies of winchmen Paul Ormsby and Ciaran Smith have never been found.
Also on board were Captain Dara Fitzpatrick, the commander of the flight who died after being pulled from the sea in the hours after the crash, and Captain Mark Duffy, the co-pilot whose body was taken from the cockpit 12 days later by Navy divers.
The inquiry is trying to determine how Rescue 116 went down. The AAIU has already established that the Sikorsky S-92’s internal warning system did not include the 80m high rocky outcrop and its working lighthouse in its database.
The search and rescue helicopter crashed after hitting Blackrock Island while coming back from supporting a mission for an injured trawlerman out in the Atlantic.
Ensure there are appropriate resources & personnel in place
AAIU STATEMENT
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