Posted on 09/21/2023 5:10:36 AM PDT by Fish Speaker
UPDATED 9/18/2023 at 7:24 pm ET with Joint Base Charleston’s announcement that the F-35’s “debris field” was located in South Carolina.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump once referred to the F-35 as “invisible.” At least as far as officials in South Carolina are concerned, he might have been right.
On Sunday, a pilot from Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort punched out of his F-35B near Charleston. The pilot is safe, a spokesman for the station told Breaking Defense, but what’s unusual is that his Joint Strike Fighter wasn’t found until a full day later, with officials announcing its recovery Monday evening. And while the search caused a flood of jokes on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, there may be very good reasons for why the jet was so hard to find, one expert told Breaking Defense.
Authorities originally focused their search “around Lake Moultrie and Lake Marion,” according to a post on X from Joint Base Charleston, which led the hunt for the fighter in coordination with federal, state and local agencies. On Monday evening, the base announced that the fighter’s “debris field” was located in Williamsburg County, a few dozen miles beyond the lakes.
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They had to give the enemy time to go over it and get what they could. NOTHING happens out of DC which wasn’t planned, focused grouped or by design.
What evidence do you have that this F-35 crash was anything other than an unfortunate training incident?
What good is a 100 million dollar fighter that can’t be flown in Instrument Meteorological Conditions?
Who says it can’t be flow in in IMC?
Just read an article that stated that it was flown into a thunderstorm that caused it to flip over on its back. I know it was in the fake “media” but it seemed accurate.
“ What evidence do you have that this F-35 crash was anything other than an unfortunate training incident?”
I wish I could believe my government. I really do. It would be much, much easier for me to do that if they hadn’t been lying to us about, well, almost EVERYTHING for the last few decades.
So now my default position is that every word from any government spokesdroid is a lie. A shining bald faced lie. They lie reflexively. They lie instinctively. They lie when the truth would actually benefit them.
And it’s all their fault.
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The enemy.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/south-carolina-man-reveals-wild-interview-what-he/
The steady-state poor reporting peaks when the subject is military aviation.
I don’t see how it drives what you do believe.
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Good one!
It’s a valid question.
“What evidence do you have that this F-35 crash was anything other than an unfortunate training incident?”
What evidence do you have that this F-35 crash was an unfortunate training incident?
Cristina Laila then revealed a debris field from the plane was found in Williamsburg County, South Carolina on Monday, two hours northeast of Joint Base Charleston.
Classic GP. Hey Christine, hours are a unit of time, not distance FFS.
Fair enough. None.
I can rely on my own experience, which includes 28 years in uniform and 15 years working for the DoD. That experience tells me that planes crash sometimes. Sometimes it’s an aircraft problem. Sometimes it’s a maintenance problem. Sometimes it’s a weather problem. Sometimes it’s a fuel problem. Sometimes it’s a crew problem.
Could it be a conspiracy requiring coordination and secrecy between the Whitehouse, Pentagon, USMC, USAF, pilot, and a covert aircraft recovery/reverse engineering team? I guess. You really got me there. Kudos.
How about simply looking at all your experience and trying to answer the question of how in the Hell did “weather” (Marine’s excuse for the incident) cause a pilot to eject but the plane continued to fly?
I’m not only prior USAF but also an avionics and systems engineer, pilot, and a board member of several aviation engineering and safety committees. The excuse of “weather” was not accompanied by additional clarifying information for which such an excuse is believable. Are they claiming a pilot punched out of a flyable aircraft because the pilot thought the weather was bad?? That is possible, and it begets many questions involving pilot and training competencies.
JMHO....Are the Marines required by the lefty squirrels to put a required number of “affirmative action” individuals into aircraft, regardless whether they have the right stuff or not? I suspect they are. I also suspect this pilot is one of them. Why is pilot’s ID being kept secret. Are they male or female? Or Non? I suspect the inept pilot pulled the wrong handle and inadvertantly ejected themself and sustained injuries. Did they eject with the canopy still closed? It’s been reported that the F-35s have a flaw in their electronics that becomes unfit for service within miles of an electrical storm. Lots of unanswered questions.
Who needs evidence
“But it was a really big spider.” Unverified quote from the pilot.
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