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Pensacola hero who saved 55 people from plane crash has died


Pensacola hero who saved 55 people from plane crash has died
COLIN WARREN-HICKS, Pensacola News Journal
April 4, 2021
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PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) When National Airlines Flight 193 crash landed in Escambia Bay on the night of May 8, 1978, the plane had 58 people onboard.
Passengers and crew members hurried out of the sinking Boeing 727 into the dark water alongside leaking fuel. Three people drowned, but the other 55 were saved by the quick work of a Pensacola tugboat captain.
Glenn McDonald, then 41, steered his tugboat to the wreckage and fished survivors out of the water and onto the safety of a small barge towed behind his vessel. ....

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