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Saturday, September 24, 2005

Oxygen loss linked to fatal MCAS jet crash
Oxygen deprivation was the likely reason a U.S. Marine pilot crashed his F/A-18 Hornet into the Atlantic Ocean last year.

Capt. Franklin R. Hooks, 32, was taking part in a training exercise on June 27, 2004, when he crashed south of the Azores, in the eastern Atlantic.

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