3 missing in Learjet crash off SoCal coast, Coast Guard suspends search

Rescue crews have suspended their search for three people who were aboard a Learjet that plunged into the Pacific Ocean about a mile from a Navy-owned island off the coast of San Diego, U.S. officials said Thursday.

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Rescue crews have suspended their search for three people missing in a Learjet crash off Southern California’s San Clemente Island. (Fox News)

The U.S. Coast Guard said its crews along with U.S. Navy, Air Force, and Customs and Border Protection all searched a combined 334 square miles in the vicinity Wednesday after the Phoenix Air Learjet went down that morning off San Clemente Island.

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The aircraft was used by a Navy contractor who departed from the Ventura County area, said Drew Verbis, spokesperson for Naval Base Ventura County on the coast northwest of Los Angeles.

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He had no other immediate details, and identities of those aboard have not been released.