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Posts on ‘October 16th, 2009’

Coast Guard continues search for missing F-16 pilot off South Carolina

CHARLESTON, S.C. The Coast Guard continues its search for a missing Air Force pilot approximately 30-miles northeast of Charleston Friday afternoon.

Coast Guard responds to gasoline spill in West Haven

NEW YORK – Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound is responding to a gasoline spill which was reported late Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009, in West Haven, Conn.

Elderly man saved by life jacket after his boat capsizes

SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. Coast Guard responded to the report of a capsized vessel in the San Joaquin River, at 12:07 p.m., today.

Missing F-16 Pilot’s Crash Debris Found in Ocean

WASHINGTON – Coast Guard searchers today found crash debris believed to belong to a missing Air Force pilot’s F-16 jet that collided yesterday with another F-16 near the South Carolina coast during a night-training exercise, an Air Force spokesman said today.

Coast Guard rescues off duty police officer near Sitka

JUNEAU, Alaska – A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter crew from Air Station Sitka along with Sitka Mountain Rescue saves a Sitka man who had fallen from a cliff near Alpine Lake, 10 miles north of Sitka Friday at 7:40 a.m.

Coast Guard rescues three from grounded sailboat

LUNA PIER, Mich. – U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Detroit rescued two males and one female from a grounded 41-foot sailboat taking on water offshore western Lake Erie approximately one mile south of Luna Pier, Friday, at approximately 1 a.m.

Coast Guard continues search for missing Air Force pilot off S.C.

CHARLESTON, S.C. The Coast Guard continues its search for a missing Air Force pilot approximately 30-miles northeast of Charleston.