U.S. Sub-Hunting Plane Missing
TEL AVIV — American and Israeli teams searched the eastern Mediterranean today for a missing U.S. submarine-hunting plane with a four-man crew. An Israeli officer said it would have great intelligence value in the wrong hands.
Both American and Israeli teams were trying to find the S-3A Viking assigned to the 6th Fleet, the American Embassy said. Israel radio reported that contact was lost after the plane transmitted distress signals off the Cyprus coast at about 6 p.m. Tuesday. The plane had been scheduled to return to the carrier John F. Kennedy at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday from a routine patrol north of Egypt.
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