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'A Ditching None Could Expect to Survive'
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At the height of the Cold War, an unlikely coalition of aircraft from the Coast Guard, the Navy, and the Air Force, along with a Soviet fishing trawler, battled heavy northern Pacific weather in an effort to save the crew of a downed P-3 Orion.

For the U.S. Coast Guard's search and rescue (SAR) business, 1978 was a boom year. Nearly 78,000 SAR events transpired during those 12 months-an annual total never approached since then-with more than 100,000 SAR aircraft...

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