Gerry O'Sullivan
Ceist:73 Mr. G. O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Defence if he will give the technical reason a Dauphin helicopter had to abandon a search and rescue mission recently off the Cork coast.
Written Answers. - Abandonment of Search and Rescue Mission.
I understand that the question refers to the mission undertaken on the night of 22 January, 1990. The helicopter was withdrawn from that mission because it developed a fault in its navigation equipment.