Patrick Air Force Base combat rescue team training turns into real rescue

Airmen's Training Mission Becomes Rescue

4 Injured When Air Boat Crashes Into Tree

POSTED: 5:49 am EST February 8, 2012

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. -- Combat search and rescue airmen helped rescue four people injured in an air boat crash Tuesday night.

Four people were ejected into the St. John's River after the air boat slammed into a tree. All four were injured, one of them critically, according to Brevard County Fire officials.

Three of the injured were flown from the scene by the combat airmen from Patrick's Air Force base, who were training nearby when the crash happened at about 7 p.m.
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