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Crashed F-35 Found in South Carolina
Debris from a missing F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jet has been located in South Carolina north of where a pilot ejected and parachuted to safety.
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FTA: "How in the hell do you lose an F-35?" Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. "How is there not a tracking device and we're asking the public to what, find a jet and turn it in?"
Uhhhhhhh.
#1 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2023-09-19 05:28 PM | Reply
I've heard it reported that the transponder wasn't working properly. And radar only works above a certain altitude. I watched news reporting that people heard and felt the jet but it actually crashed into an unoccupied wooded area and when the people startled by the noise and shaking came out of their homes they didn't see anything so none of them reported what had happened.
#2 | Posted by tonyroma at 2023-09-19 05:32 PM | Reply
Gravy must have called the pentagon and told them about her thoughts on the matter.
#3 | Posted by jpw at 2023-09-19 05:46 PM | Reply
Taking a child on an airplane is abuse and this is just another great example.
#4 | Posted by Tor at 2023-09-19 05:47 PM | Reply | Funny: 1
News report on the search.
#5 | Posted by censored at 2023-09-19 06:01 PM | Reply
I've heard it reported that the transponder wasn't working properly.
It's possible there was no avionics power at all. No one is going to bail out of a plane like that unless something was seriously wrong? No big fire... maybe it was out of fuel?
More likely Hunter took it out with The Laptop. You know, to take the heat off Joe.
#6 | Posted by REDIAL at 2023-09-19 06:21 PM | Reply | Funny: 2
Has the grounding of F-35s been rescinded?
#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2023-09-19 07:57 PM | Reply
I think they grounded everything for 48 hours. Three major incidents in six weeks. Time out.
#8 | Posted by REDIAL at 2023-09-19 07:59 PM | Reply | Funny: 1
"How in the hell do you lose an F-35?" Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. "How is there not a tracking device and we're asking the public to what, find a jet and turn it in?"
This is the Biden budget, things like this are going to happen. Money was better spent fighting for transgender men to be able to compete in college women's sports.
#9 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2023-09-20 01:40 PM | Reply
You're a complete cartoon. Congrats!
#10 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2023-09-20 01:42 PM | Reply
I've heard from sources the bird was on auto pilot.
Why bail out of a bird on autopilot? How far away from the ejection site was the crash site?
#11 | Posted by boaz at 2023-09-20 01:47 PM | Reply
How far away from the ejection site was the crash site?
One report I saw said about 60 miles.
#12 | Posted by REDIAL at 2023-09-20 01:51 PM | Reply
Same report said it was only 1000 feet AGL when the pilot ejected. Also some questions about the automatic ejection seats in that variant of plane.
#13 | Posted by REDIAL at 2023-09-20 02:24 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
It doesnt matter how high up they are airplanes aren't safe for children.
#14 | Posted by Tor at 2023-09-20 02:58 PM | Reply
I hope they find the F-35's missing pronouns. That would be a shame if we didn't know how it identifies.
#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2023-09-20 03:45 PM | Reply
That would be a shame if we didn't know how it identifies.
I believe it has transitioned to "crater".
#16 | Posted by REDIAL at 2023-09-20 03:47 PM | Reply | Funny: 3
This is the Biden budget, things like this are going to happen. #9 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS AT 2023-09-20 01:40 PM | REPLY
What an embarrassing, fact-free statement to make. DoD has plenty of money, accidents are just bound to happen.
"The fiscal year 2023 Department of Defense Appropriations Act provides $797.7 billion in discretionary spending, an increase of $69.3 billion above fiscal year 2022." appropriations.house.gov
#17 | Posted by bartimus at 2023-09-20 03:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
#11 Boaz On the news this morning they said that the plane can autoeject the pilot and they wondered if that was what happened.
#18 | Posted by Ronnie68 at 2023-09-20 05:23 PM | Reply
I remember years ago the Brits found a Harrier flying along out over the Atlantic with no canopy and no pilot.
#19 | Posted by REDIAL at 2023-09-20 05:31 PM | Reply
That's terrible What happened to the canopy?
#20 | Posted by Tor at 2023-09-20 06:24 PM | Reply
What happened to the canopy?
Canopy blows off as part of the ejection sequence. Don't remember if they ever found the pilot.
#21 | Posted by REDIAL at 2023-09-20 06:27 PM | Reply
It's like I've said we can't trust planes.
science flies us to the moon and planes into towers.
#22 | Posted by Tor at 2023-09-20 07:32 PM | Reply
Marines under fire for flying $80M F-35 over SC during thunderstorm when report shows jets CAN'T handle storms: Pilot ejected due to 'bad weather' before jet 'flipped', flew 100ft above trees in 'zombie mode' and crashed in field
www.dailymail.co.uk
#23 | Posted by oneironaut at 2023-09-20 11:01 PM | Reply
Good thing he got out.
#24 | Posted by REDIAL at 2023-09-20 11:16 PM | Reply
Read the link.
'Our kids always give a little salute, so we said, 'Look at the plane. Oh my gosh, it's so low,'' said Adrian Truluck. 'And it was kind of probably 100 feet above the tree tops, and almost going inverted.' Her husband, Stephen Truluck, added: 'It was probably three quarters of the way,' flipped over. 'We could see the canopy.'
#25 | Posted by REDIAL at 2023-09-21 12:08 AM | Reply
LEFTINTHETURDS is full of fact free statements.
Accidents "happen" with the F-35 since the plane has major flaws in the design.
www.defensenews.com
Wasn't this the plane that could not fly in the rain? Brilliant design.
"When pilots conduct supersonic intercepts or find themselves needing to race away from an enemy during combat, they will be able to take the F-35 to its furthest limits of speed and altitude " most likely without any permanent damage to the aircraft, "
Most likely.
A supersonic fighter that suffers permanent damage going supersonic. BRILLIANT!
This isn't a Biden issue as much as LEFTINTHETURDS so desperately wants it to be unless of course Biden was president in 2019 and earlier. www.dailymail.co.uk
#26 | Posted by Nixon at 2023-09-21 07:30 AM | Reply
Nixon, you are spreading Russian propaganda.
You just linked a bunch of Valerie Insinna articles. She's a Russian propagandist.
The first article, standard, minor glitches that do not affect combat effectiveness and already have solutions.
Second article, all modern combat jets have overrides that allow them to push beyond design tolerances in emergency combat situations. When you test those overrides you are in the destructive testing regime on purpose.
We've been inundated with anti F-35 articles for years, because Russia and China fear it.
#27 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2023-09-21 09:41 AM | Reply
and if we lose a plane, so what, it's the pilot that's important. We can put him or her in another plane.
#28 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2023-09-21 09:42 AM | Reply
You might as well be posting Daniel Davis nonsense along side it.
#29 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2023-09-21 09:45 AM | Reply
Maybe the "lightning III" can withstand lightning? Der!
#30 | Posted by Brennnn at 2023-09-21 10:20 AM | Reply
It's the Lightning 2, not the 3.
But electronics and lightning don't typically do well together no matter what. Fly over the thunderstorm stupid.
#31 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2023-09-21 11:03 AM | Reply
"It's the Lightning 2, not the 3." I was joking about how the lightning 2 cannot withstand lightning. BTW "Commercial transport passenger planes are hit by lightning an average of one or two times a year. They are designed and built to have conducting paths through the plane to take the lightning strike and conduct the currents.
Actually, aircraft often initiate the strike because their presence enhances the ambient electric fields typical for thunderstorms and facilitates electrical breakdown through air."
#32 | Posted by Brennnn at 2023-09-22 09:00 AM | Reply
ATC steers you around the thunderstorm, because the grounding system isn't invincible.
#33 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2023-09-22 09:10 AM | Reply
Commercial air traffic being routed through thunderstorms so nobody gets hit by lightning.
#34 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2023-09-22 09:10 AM | Reply
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