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Air Force jet lost in '55, found off California
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Published: September 28, 2009
LOS ANGELES - An amateur historian says the wreckage of an Air Force jet believed lost at sea 54 years ago with two crewmen aboard has been found off the coast of Southern California.
G. Pat Macha, who heads a group of volunteer searchers, said Monday that the plane was found earlier this month during a sonar survey for another aircraft near Los Angeles.
Macha says divers matched a serial number on the wreckage to a Lockheed-Martin T-33A jet trainer.
He believes the wreckage was a missing Air Force jet that departed Los Angeles International Airport on Oct. 15, 1955.
Macha turned over the information to the Los Angeles County sheriff's office and the U.S. Military's Joint Prisoner of War/Missing In Action Command, which would be responsible for identifying the crew members.
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