Posted on 09/19/2023 12:19:40 PM PDT by srmanuel
I have a 2006 Honda Civic that is all analog except it does have power windows. Otherwise about as basic a car as can be and I have no intention of changing. With almost 400k miles I’ll ride it to its last breath.
Don’t worry about it...just funning. Brutal crowd here.
“B” and “C” are close together on the keyboard. At least you didn’t type “V” variant.
I wonder what else the pilot would do. I hope it was pointed at some large open country somewhere.
Well, Jesus is an Extraterrestrial warlike being.
but I would assume they have retrieved the black box computer from the plane and are preforming analysis it as we speak.
We will never know what happened, but the people who really need to know hopefully will.
Seems it crashed 60mi N near Georgetown,
My question is assuming the pilot left autopilot turned on why did he eject or as others have pointed out was he ejected automatically without the pilot pulling the handle
All I know is it seems very odd a pilot would eject from a 100 million dollar plane and the plane kept flying and the military had no idea where the plane was for some amount of time
Wouldn’t even need the autopilot to be turned on...all modern fly-by-wire fighters automatically trim themselves to 1g (straight & level) in the absence of joystick/pilot input.
I have no issue with that but it still seems odd to me the pilot would eject or be ejected if the plane was still flying straight and level and the military not knowing where the plane was for a short period of time
Agreed, we don’t know the issue that caused the pilot to eject (or the “auto-eject” system to engage). I am just pointing out that all the references to “auto-pilot” being engaged are speculation as the jet will continue to fly straight and level w/o the AP turned on. Most military planes fly with ADS-B turned off so “flight tracker” websites aren’t helpful in tracking the aircraft after the ejection, but there should be plenty of radar tracking data available. Moot point now since they found it.
Google rules.
What happened was the pilot said “What does this button do?”
WHOOSH! the ejection seat fires....
This particular incident happened in Georgia what happens if the same incident happens in Ukraine and the jet flies into Russia before crashing or China or worse Iran, an adversary who could gain a lot of valuable intelligence from a downed American fighter jet
I thought you were going to say how the lost plane starts WW3 and thousands of nukes are launched all over the place.
But yeah - them getting the intelligence would be bad too.
Been a problem since the first war/conflict...not sure there is an answer for it.
(Charleston, SC BTW): https://maps.app.goo.gl/GaHySGKW1aVjbFUT8
I agree. I have been looking and so far the only thing I found was a two day shutdown on flying and some mandatory safety training, plus the plane being left on auto pilot.
The F-35B Lightning II stealth fighter jet was “involved in a mishap,” military officials based in Charleston, South Carolina, said on Sunday. The pilot ejected and was taken to a nearby medical center “in a stable condition,” officials from Joint Base Charleston said.
The U.S. Air Force judges a “mishap” to cover a wide range of scenarios, or “any unintended occurrence in the Air or Space Force that results in death, injury, illness or property damage.”
The jet was part of a training squadron with the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing
An F-35B crashed in South Carolina in 2018, after which the U.S. military temporarily grounded its fleet of the aircraft.
I couldn’t resist, the initial reports about the cause of the ejection and subsequent crash have come out.
Here is an article in the NY Post, they are reporting the pilot ejected himself because the plane was in bad weather.
https://nypost.com/2023/09/20/f-35-pilot-ejected-over-south-carolina-due-to-bad-weather/
Either the military thinks the public is incredibly dumb or they have some affirmative action hires flying top of the line jet fighters who have no business being in any plane much less a F-35.
Yeah, “bad weather” is very weak...IFR/ILS capable aircraft...probably has some sort of “auto-land” capability? (”C” model carrier version does at least, this was a “hoverjet” “B” model Marine version).
Only thing I can think of is that “Joint Base Charleston” is a Marine Corps flight training base so this could have been a trainee/rookie pilot...one one their 1st flights...(single seat jet, no instructor pilot onboard).
Even that is weak, I would assume the pilot completed training successfully in a 2 seater trainer jet with an instructor pilot.
We will just have to wait for the military accident report to be released I guess.
After ejecting, the pilot claimed to have lost the plane due to bad weather. He has since been discharged.
He is understood to have left the jet on autopilot when he ejected — sparking a desperate, embarrassing hunt that included the military appealing to locals to help find the aircraft
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