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Pilot’s body discovered in Gulf of Mexico


The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Oct 31, 2009 9:14:29 EDT

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Coast Guard says searchers have found the body of one pilot whose plane disappeared off the Texas coast.

The search continues for a second pilot who was aboard when the training plane went missing Wednesday.

The Coast Guard said in a news release that the body was found Friday afternoon when a floating rig’s crew reported something in the water.

The dead pilot was not identified, but the Navy has said 29-year-old Lt. John Joseph Houston of Houston and 30-year-old Lt. Bret Travis Miller of East Troy, Wis., were on board.

Naval Air Station Corpus Christi lost contact with the Navy T-34C Turbomentor training plane Wednesday afternoon. The plane’s last known location was near San Jose Island.

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PHCS R. L. Lawson / Navy An air-to-air right side view of a T-34 Mentor aircraft. A similar plane is missing off the coast of Texas.

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