A search has been going on throughout the night for the remaining three crew members of a Marine Rescue helicopter which crashed about five miles off the Almeria coast.
The engineer on the flight was found a few minutes after the crash and was suffering from hypothermia. he is now in hospital in Torrecárdenas.
Contact with the Helimer 207 helicopter was lost at 20:36 while it was carrying out a routine practice operation about five miles off the Almeria coast. Shortly after contact was lost, red flares were seen in the area. The engineer on the flight was rescued shortly afterwards.
The cause of the crash is not yet known and an investigation is underway.