OVIEDO, Fla. – In 1962, a navy plane experienced equipment failure and three crew members on board are credited for navigating the plane away from crashing into a school in Oviedo.
It’s a moment in Central Florida history some may not know about. Jim Jones remembers still remembers that day almost 60 years later. [TRENDING: Where school staff, child care workers can get the vaccine| A guide for Buc-ee’s first-timers in Florida |Space hurricane seen swirling above Earth] “It was January 15, 1962,” Jones said.
Jones was 16 years old at the time. He was a junior at the Oviedo School, which served students in first through 12th grade.