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Coast Guard Says Mayday Call a Hoax

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A report of a plane ditching in the Pacific Ocean between John Wayne Airport and Catalina Island was a hoax, Coast Guard officials said Friday.

Spokesmen at the Coast Guard Rescue Coordination Center in Long Beach said U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships and aircraft had searched unsuccessfully Thursday for a downed aircraft after receiving a radio Mayday call purportedly from a pilot who reported he was ditching in the water.

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