A woman has died after going overboard from a passenger ship off the Channel Islands<\/a>.<\/p>\n The French coastguard said it received a distress message saying a woman in her 20s had gone overboard north of Les Casquets rocks, west of Alderney, shortly after midnight on Saturday. The woman went overboard from the Maltese-flagged cruise ship MSC Virtuosa.<\/p>\n A French navy helicopter based in Maupertus-sur-Mer was scrambled for the rescue mission. It was supported by an offshore rescue vessel from Goury along with a RNLI lifeboat from Alderney and a Channel Islands air search plane.<\/p>\n \u201cChannel Islands air search were called out early this morning and requested to assist Jobourg MRCC in the search for a person overboard from the MSC Virtuosa cruise ship, north of Les Casquets,\u201d the volunteer organisation said in a post on Facebook<\/a>. \u201cLions\u2019 Pride departed from Guernsey at 0200hrs and set course for the search area.\u201d<\/p>\n The air search team said it was stood down after the woman was lifted from the water at about 3am local time.<\/p>\n