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29 year old Lt. Gene Pelton, of Clinton Iowa was flying a routine night time training flight from NAS Oceana. He ejected from his stricken aircraft over the waters of the Atlantic off Virginia Beach at 8,500 ft 150 knots. He freed himself from chute underwater. He was picked up by a Spanish merchant ship "La Roja" five and a half hours later hours later in the early morning of Friday 21st June 1957. He had lost both his 'chute and raft. |
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