Woman found after major air and sea search operation in County Antrim
- Aug 13, 2021
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A major air and sea search operation sprung into action late last night (Thursday 12 August) after a female walker was reported missing in the area of Fairhead, Ballycastle.
it is understood the woman had been walking in the well-known and very dangerous boulder fields at the County Antrim beauty spot.
Coastguard teams from Ballycastle and Coleraine were tasked to the incident where they located the woman in the boulder fields.
The teams made a decision that it was too dangerous to extract the casualty by stretcher from the scene due to the dangerous terrain.
A request was made to HMCG Rescue Helicopter 199 from Prestwick who scrambled to the scene.
The woman was subsequently winched from the incident scene and taken to Ballycastle Golf Club landing site uninjured.
