The body of an Irish woman who emigrated from Ireland to the US fell from a helicopter as it was flown home to her native Inis Meáin off Co Galway.
Mary Folan has emigrated to the States in the 1920s but wanted to be buried at home so after her death in 1967, her family arranged her final flight to the island.
The incredible gesture to repatriate her was almost ruined when the coffin carrying Mary's remains was accidentally dropped into a field below from a helicopter.
