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News Release

Date: March 10, 2010

Contact: Petty Officer 1st Class Christopher Evanson

(305) 318-1864

*Photos* Coast Guard rescues two Marine Corps F-18 pilots off South Carolina Coast

BEAUFORT, S.C. - Two F-18 Marine Corps pilots pose with the air crew members of an Air Facility Charleston HH-65 Dolphin rescue helicopter crew following their quick response to an F/A-18D Hornet aircraft, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. The pilots ejected 35 miles off the coast of South Carolina after their engines became disabled=

 

BEAUFORT, S.C. - Marine Corps Lt. Col. Joseph Maybach, commanding officer, Marine Aircraft Group offers a welcome-back hug to one of the two Marine Corps aviators recovered by a Coast Guard Air Facility Charleston, S.C., HH-65 Dolphin helicopter rescue crew Wednesday, March 10, 2010, off the coast of South Carolina. The two pilots ejected after the engine to their Marine F/A-18D Hornet engine became disabled. U.S. Marine Corps photo.

CHARLESTON, S.C. - The Coast Guard rescued two Marine Corps pilots Wednesday at 6:15 p.m., approximately 35-miles off the coast of St. Helena Sound, S.C.

Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, S.C., notified the Coast Guard at about 5:17 p.m., Wednesday, reporting that two pilots aboard a Marine F/A-18D Hornet attached to Marine All Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 224 went down off the coast of South Carolina. In addition, it was reported that two parachutes were seen indicating that the pilots had ejected. 

A Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphin helicopter rescue crew from Air Facility Charleston located the missing pilots at 
6:15 p.m. and safely rescued them. 

For more information, please contact the Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort Public Affairs office at (843) 228-7201 or by cell at (843) 321-6659. 

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