There’s a runaway fighter jet somewhere near South Carolina.
Personnel from Joint Base Charleston and Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort in South Carolina are responding on Sunday to a mishap involving a missing F-35B Lightning II jet from Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron (VMFAT) 501 with the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing.
The pilot ejected safely into a North Charleston neighborhood and was transferred to a local medical center in stable condition. Emergency response teams are still trying to locate the F-35, which apparently kept flying without the pilot.
The public is asked to cooperate with military and civilian authorities as the effort continues. The focus is currently on two lakes north of North Charleston, Lake Moultrie and Lake Marion.
On the base’s Facebook page on Sunday, the military asked that those with information about the whereabouts of the wandering jet call the JB Charleston Base Defense Operations Center.
The F-35B Lightning II jet, manufactured by Lockheed Martin, is said to cost about $80 million to produce and is used by the U.S. Marine Corps. It is the Marine Corps variant of the Joint Strike Fighter and has vertical lift fan and pivoting engine nozzle to deliver vertical landing and short takeoff capability to expeditionary airfields, according to Military Times. The F-35 replaces the AV-8B Harrier IIs.
Wonder if it makes it to China….Hahahahahaa
Remember when the DEW line sites could track anything that flew on the horizon back in the 1960’s? What happened to that technology?
Why did the pilot eject? That’s a big deal ejecting w/in range of metropolitan populations.
Life support or control system failed.
Maybe it landed itself. Happened before with the Cornfield Bomber in 1970. The pilot who ejected flew the same jet 9 years later at Tyndall. Cheers –
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People will believe any stupid a– story. LOL
Its in print so it has to be true….
That ain’t no jab uh I mean joke !
I guess “auto pilot” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.(plz.. not a pun, very serious) Very dangerous. Wondering just how much fuel is left, before it “ditches”.
Any CCP fishing, freight, or other large vessels off the coast of SC at the time it happened?
Asking for a friend.
Since the feds can’t seem to find it, I have to assume that the plane landed beneath Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Maybe the Feds will start raiding soccer moms’ homes or churches trying to find it. I know they came to AK looking for Pelosi’s computer.
$80 million and could not afford an air tag?
At least he saved his $400,000 helmet when he bailed.
Was Grandpa Sniffy flying it?
This is a BS story. No way can a fighter get into the air that the military doesn’t know where it is at all times. I don’t know who is putting this crap out but it may be a general knowledge test for the US citizen.
So a STEALTH aircraft is something you expect to be readily trackable? As a Lockheed engineer noted, the jet appears to be about the size of a tennis ball on modern radar.
The F35 is a ‘connected’ aircraft….Maybe the Chinese hacked it and flew it away? Or Maybe we ‘just lost it’? Either way you don’t lose track an of 80 million dollar aircraft and get to keep your job….
This happens while unmanned SpaceX rocket boosters return to Earth and land on a boat?
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Maybe the person who can make this happen could help out with the F-35 program too?
Most likely part of the Iran deal that grandpa just finished. You know in addition to the 6 billion in US money.
Oh well, all the celebrities and blue haired rainbow freaks feel safe now so…there’s that.
It’s in a Chinese chopshop as we speak.
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