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POSTED: 12:19 pm EDT September 21, 2005 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Firefighters are responding to reports that a Navy jet has gone down just west of Naval Air Station Jacksonville. According to Jacksonville Fire-Rescue, the plane, believed to be an S-3 Viking jet, went down in a lumber yard in the 6500 block of Roosevelt Boulevard. The plane was on fire, which was put out. The Navy told the local station that two parachutes were seen before the crash and a search is under way for the pilot and co-pilot. All three of the Navy's East Coast squadrons of Vikings are...

Barronett man aids in pilot rescue The Associated Press SPOONER -- Mary Wickland named her son after a brother who drowned in a lake, and she made sure the boy became an excellent swimmer. On Tuesday, 20-year-old Scott Daniel Wickland jumped into the waters of the Persian Gulf and rescued two pilots who had ejected from a crashed plane. Wickland, a native of Barronett in Barron County, is a crew member on a helicopter assigned search-and-rescue duties in the war with Iraq. He was in the helicopter early Tuesday when a plane veered off the deck of the aircraft carrier...