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US Coast Guard searches for woman who fell from cruise ship
2008-12-27
MIAMI (AFP) - The US Coast Guard said Saturday it launched a C-130 airplane to scour the southeastern Gulf of Mexico in search of a woman who fell from a cruise ship. The woman was reported missing early Friday from the cruise ship Norwegian Pearl when the vessel was some 24 kilometers (15 miles) east of the Mexican resort town of Cancun en route to Miami, said Coast Guard spokesman Nick Ameen. After searching the ship, crewmembers contacted Mexican and US authorities for help. A Coast Guard search and rescue team in Miami launched an HU-25 Falcon jet crew to search for the woman Friday, Ameen said. And on Saturday "we conducted a first-light search with a C-130 fixed-wing aircraft," Ameen told AFP. "We'll continue to be out there until further notice." The Mexican government has a helicopter crew and three vessels also searching for the woman, Ameen said. The missing passenger was identified by her husband as Jennifer Feitz, 36.
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