The Surf City Borough Council last week recognized two veteran lifeguards who rescued a banner pilot after his plane crash landed and sank in the Atlantic Ocean less than a mile from the shoreline of the 13th Street beach on a busy Saturday afternoon late last month.
Scott Meggitt, 21, and Charlie Osborne, 20, were on duty June 27 when they watched the pilot land his plane on the ocean’s surface with something of a thud before it flipped over once and sank quickly.
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