SOUTHLAND : Jet Crashes; Marine Missing
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SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND — A Marine Corps FA-18 jet participating in training exercises crashed off San Clemente Island, and debris from the aircraft and a damaged lifeboat were recovered today, officials said.
A spokesman for the Marine Corps Air Station in El Toro said controllers lost contact with the jet shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday while it was southeast of San Clemente Island. There was no sign of the pilot, Lt. Mark J. Gelgean, based at El Toro.
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