South Carolina Fishing Reports - - F-18 crashes off SC coast, pilots rescued - Not sure. I think I remember hearing something like that around here a while ago. Glad to hear the pilots walked away.
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South Carolina Fishing Reports - - F-18 crashes off SC coast, pilots rescued - Not sure. I think I remember hearing something like that around here a while ago. Glad to hear the pilots walked away.
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Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:28 am Post subject: F-18 crashes off SC coast, pilots rescued
2 Marine fighter pilots rescued; SC crash probed
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - The Marine Corps is trying to determine why a fighter jet suffered engine failures, crashing into the ocean off South Carolina and forcing the pilots to bail out.
Officials at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort say neither the pilot nor the weapons officer on the F/A-18D Hornet suffered serious injuries when they ejected late Wednesday afternoon about 35 miles offshore.
The Marines' names were not released. They were picked up by a Coast Guard helicopter about an hour after the plane went down and were checked by a doctor as a precaution.
A Marines spokesman says a Coast Guard cutter was patrolling the crash site late Wednesday to help locate and recover pieces of the plane.
The plane was on a training mission when the two engines on the $29 million jet failed. _________________ Admin of southcarolina-offshore.com
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CHARLESTON, SC (WMBF) - Two Marine Corps pilots were rescued Wednesday evening off the coast of St. Helena Sound after their plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, according to U.S. Coast Guard officials.
The U.S. Coast Guard was notified of the situation by a Marine Corps Air Station in Beaufort just after 5:15 p.m., following reports an F/A-18D Hornet attached to Marine All-Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 224 crashed off the South Carolina Coast.
Two parachutes were spotted after the pilots ejected themselves from the distressed aircraft. A Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphin helicopter rescue crew from Charleston successfully located the missing pilots at 6:15 p.m.
Officials at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort say neither the pilot nor the weapons officer on the F/A-18D Hornet suffered serious injuries when they ejected late Wednesday afternoon about 35 miles offshore.
The plane was on a training mission when the two engines on the $29 million jet failed _________________ Admin of southcarolina-offshore.com
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Captain Keith Logan
Longs SC
Cell: 843-907-0064
http://www.feedinfrenzycharters.com/ http://www.southchathamtackle.com/
didn't one of these go down less than a year ago too ? _________________ Paul Pancake - Coastal Saltwater Anglers
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Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:28 pm Post subject:
Not sure. I think I remember hearing something like that around here a while ago. Glad to hear the pilots walked away. _________________ Tight Lines
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South Carolina Fishing Reports - - F-18 crashes off SC coast, pilots rescued - Not sure. I think I remember hearing something like that around here a while ago. Glad to hear the pilots walked away.
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