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Search Continues for Four Navy Fliers After Crash Off Big Sur
Saturday, October 19, 2002
The Associated Press

When McDonnell Douglas -- now owned by Boeing -- was building Super Hornets in the 1990s, critics said the aircraft had problems that were never fully fixed.

POINT SUR -- AP
The U.S. Coast Guard continued to search the Pacific Ocean 80 miles southwest of Monterey for four Navy pilots missing after their two fighter jets collided Friday during a combat exercise.

Two cutters searched for the pilots through the night and at first light Saturday, an HH-65 Dolphin helicopter was sent to aid the search, Coast Guard spokeswoman Veronica Bandrowski said.

"We'll continue to search until all probability of survival has been exhausted," she said.

Computer-aided search programs, which calculate sea changes, wind and other factors, are guiding searchers over about 40 square miles where the pilots may have drifted.

The Coast Guard sent home three commercial fishing vessels that helped in the search Friday.
(More: San Diego Union-Tribune News Source)
2002 © The Associated Press.

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