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Navy plane crashes near Athens By DON PLUMMER Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer A U.S. Navy plane crashed near Athens Thursday. According to Mike Maus, public affairs officer at the Naval Air Force Atlantic Fleet in Norfolk, Va., a U.S. Navy S-3B Viking on a routine training mission crashed about 11:30 a.m. The two crew members on board ejected safely. They seem to be in good condition, he said, and have been picked up from the crash site. The crew is from Naval Air Station Jacksonville in Florida. The S-3B is a twin-engine jet sometimes used for inflight refueling. It is...

Elizabeth Vincelette of Virginia Beach, shown with 4-year-old Annie, says a guardian angel must have been watching over her husband this week.Photo by Genevieve Ross / The Virginian-Pilot.VIRGINIA BEACH -- For her fourth birthday Tuesday, Annie Vincelette got a Rapunzel costume and a copy of the movie "Sleeping Beauty." Her best present, though, was a fairy-tale ending to her father's brush with death that day, 20,000 feet above the Iraqi desert. Lt. Chad Vincelette, 32, a Virginia Beach native and Navy F-14 fighter pilot, was heading back to the carrier Kitty Hawk after a bombing run when a mechanical failure...

Pilots Describe Being Behind Enemy Lines By ROHAN SULLIVAN .c The Associated Press ABOARD THE USS KITTY HAWK (AP) - The two Americans bailed out of a failing F-14 Tomcat fighter jet in the Iraqi desert, and when rescuers asked if they could walk, they didn't hesitate. ``I can run, just point me in the right direction,'' replied one crew member, a lieutenant commander nicknamed Gordo. Gordo, the plane's radar intercept operator, and its pilot, a lieutenant who goes by Vinny, returned to their base on the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk on Wednesday after a frightening night behind enemy...