PUTNAM COUNTY, Fla. — A pilot in a downed plane was rescued by a Navy flight crew in Putnam County on Monday.
The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office said the 81-year-old pilot was headed to the Palatka Municipal Airport when he “sent an emergency signal and radioed a mayday.”
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A US Navy MH-60 Seahawk that happened to be in the area assisted the pilot.
As PCSO deputies were arriving, they saw that the Navy flight crew “located the downed plane and had the pilot loaded on a rescue basket.”
The plane went down near Bardin Rd. N. of State Road 100 in a water reservoir.
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The Navy crew gave the pilot a ride back to the airport. The pilot was uninjured.
“GO NAVY - semper fortis (always courageous),” the PCSO wrote in its Facebook post.
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