International Melges 32 Class Blog

St. Petersburg, FL – Anthony Kotoun, frequent Melges 32 Class sailor aboard John Taylor’s Ninkasi, rescued the sole occupant of a single engine aircraft that lost power on final approach to St. Petersburg’s Albert Whitted Airport on Monday morning at 10:30 AM.  Kotoun was on the water training Para-Olympic competitors when pilot Nancy Schofield ditched her Cessna after the engine cut-out short of the runway and off the breakwater from the St. Petersburg Sailing Center and St. Petersburg Yacht Club. Kotoun jumped into the water to pull Schofield to safety and confirm there were no other passengers aboard the sinking Cessna.

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