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Navy Pilot Being Reunited with Plane 57 Years Later
Marine Corps Air Station Miramar
Feb. 5, 2015 | 2:50
Robert Jones, former U.S. Navy FJ-48B Fury pilot with Strike Fighter Squadron 146, was reunited with hie plane that had crash after he ejected from the aircraft during a familiarization flight 57 years ago. Cowhands on privately owned Rancho Guejito found the wreckage after most of the brush in the area was thinned out by fires including the Poomacha Fire of 2007.
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