Pilots rescued by Coast GuardPilots rescued by Coast Guard

Pilots rescued by Coast Guard

(EXCERPT) By Bruce Smith ASSOCIATED PRESS

9:09 p.m. October 15, 2003

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Two military jet fighters crashed off the South
Carolina coast on Wednesday, and their pilots were rescued and brought
safely back to land, authorities said.

The pilots were in good condition, said Capt. Don Caetano, public
affairs officer for the Beaufort Marine Corps Air Station, where the
planes were based.

"They were conducting routine training and they had a mishap," Caetano
said.

Caetano said it was too early to know if the planes, F/A-18A fighters,
might have clipped each other in the air. An investigation has been
launched.

The pilots, Capt. Matthew McInerney, 29, of Glen Rock, N.J., and Maj.
Breton Saunders, 37, of Orange Park, Fla., had both recently returned
from missions in Iraq, Caetano said.

The U.S. Coast Guard began searching over the Atlantic after ge...

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