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Wed 11 Nov 2002€38,000 for crash victim's motherThe mother of an air-sea rescue crewman has been awarded €38,000 compensation for the death of her son in an Air Corps helicopter crash.The Circuit Civil Court heard yesterday that Mr Niall Byrne (25) had been winch-man on the Dauphin helicopter which crashed into sand dunes at Tramore, Co Waterford, in the early hours of July 2nd, 1999, while on a search-and-rescue mission at sea.