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560464 Crash 318 FIS

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The pilot of F-106 56-0464 of the 318th FIS ejected safely, before it crashed into the wilderness near Lake Ozette on 4 Aug 1964, shortly before noon Wednesday. Air Force Captain Webb H. Huss, parachuted into the lake and was pulled from the water by an unidentified boater and taken to shore. A helicopter from Paine Air Force Base flew him to Sedro Woolley, where he was hospitalized with head and other injuries.

Smithsonian's Air and Space Magazine article published Nov 2015