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Critics Aren’t Buying Story Of Why Pilot Ejected From $100 Million F-35 Fighter Jet Before It Crashed—Here’s What They’re Saying
Gateway Pundit ^ | Sep. 21, 2023 9:45 am | By Patty McMurray

Posted on 09/21/2023 12:40:27 PM PDT by Red Badger

On Sunday afternoon, it was announced an F-35 fighter jet valued at an estimated $100 million was missing.

The US Marine Corps announced that the pilot of the F-35 had safely ejected from the jet but asked for the public’s help in locating the missing $100 million aircraft.

Collin Rugg of Trending Politics shared a video showing the location of the crash. Along with the video, he wrote:

“The debris field of the F-35 jet has been released after it was located in a field in Williamsburg County, South Carolina.

The crash site was about 80 miles from Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina.

The F-35 fighter jet appeared to run through a group of trees before crashing down in the field.

In 2019, concerns were raised by the Pentagon of the possibility that the F-35 could be hacked.

It’s still unclear what caused the crash…”

The identity of the pilot flying the F-35 fighter that crashed in a field in South Carolina has not been revealed, but what has been revealed is his story about why he ejected from the $100 million US Marine jet only moments before it crashed.

A South Carolina couple claims that they saw the F-35 flying over their home just moments before the crash, and according to them, the fighter jet was “inverted.”

“Our kids always give a little salute, so we said, ‘Look at the plane. Oh my gosh, it’s so low,'” Adrian Truluck said. “And it was kind of probably 100 feet above the tree tops and almost going inverted.”

According to the New York Post– the pilot claimed to have lost the plane in the weather — and likely bailed out before he could activate its tracking system, sources and experts said.

“He’s unsure of where his plane crashed, said he just lost it in the weather,” a voice can be heard saying of the pilot on a Charleston County Emergency Medical Services call posted Tuesday by a meteorologist.

The unidentified pilot landed in a North Charleston residential neighborhood and was taken to a local hospital for treatment.

,He has since been discharged.

Unfortunately, very few Americans have much confidence in his story.

Here are just a few of the responses to the pilot’s story that appeared with Collin Rugg’s tweet:

Michael Wilson @sirmichaelwill had this to say about the pilot ejecting from the $100 million aircraft because of bad weather:

Yeah, this whole story doesn’t add up. What aren’t they telling us?

The response to the pilot’s story by Pedro @ElCapitanTweets is brutal:

He had a higher chance of getting hit my lightning when ejecting.. poor decision making. Doesn’t pass the smell test. He doesn’t need to be back in the cockpit and needs to be behind a desk if a little thunderstorm scares him.

Unreal.

Hank @GCapital_LLC wrote:

An F-35, pinnacle of aviation tech, outsmarted by… weather?

Either Mother Nature just upgraded, or they truly believe we’ll buy any story they sell.

And that pilot’s sense of direction? Probably uses a sun dial in the cockpit.

Astonishing!

Mark Sullivan @Sullie870125 wrote:

Keep in mind we are in the era of woke quotas, so unfortunately there is no guarantee the pilot was actually qualified to even fly the aircraft so there’s that

Paul Hookem shared a hilarious image reminding everyone how ludicrous it is that the US Marines were asking for help to find their $100 million fighter jet:

And finally, Lior Sela @liorsela, who claims to only live two hours away from the alleged crash site, had this to say:

I don’t buy it. I live 2 hrs away from Charleston, SC and the weather was perfect.

Clear skies and sunny

Robert J Kingsbury @RobertJKingsbu1 wrote:

The thing was hacked that is why the military grounded all of their planes for a couple of days.

They would of never grounded planes because one plane went through bad weather.

What do you think? Do you believe the pilot bailed because of bad weather or is there more to this story?


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Health/Medicine; Military/Veterans; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: aircraft; f35; missingf35
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To: Red Badger
Let me guess - China made some of the parts.

And our military brass and military contractors are too stupid to protect our country so they went with the lowest bidder who 'kicked back' some perks... and knew the right pronouns to use...
21 posted on 09/21/2023 1:04:14 PM PDT by GOPJ (President Trump: ‘How much of a kickback does Crooked Joe Biden get?’ (ransom payment Iran))
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To: Red Badger

When all the other explanations fail, whatever is left is often the truth.

I have yet to see anybody absolutely say the F-35 WAS NOT HACKED BY THE CHINESE.


22 posted on 09/21/2023 1:04:28 PM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: MNDude

Sitting in a Titanium Tub, the pilot wouldn’t have felt anything. But the plane’s mechanicals might have (definitely) been damaged by .50cal BMG rounds.


23 posted on 09/21/2023 1:05:08 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Red Badger

How do we know the pilot was a “he”?


24 posted on 09/21/2023 1:05:42 PM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: UnwashedPeasant

+1

It’s GP. What do you expect?


25 posted on 09/21/2023 1:06:31 PM PDT by Mr.Unique (My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I'm running that far! )
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To: MNDude

Not guilty. Not named Tiffany. At least in date zone, possibly in wife zone.

Would be an upgrade.


26 posted on 09/21/2023 1:08:41 PM PDT by Hieronymus
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To: Truthsearcher

We don’t.

Maybe that is one reason for them not identifying the pilot..............


27 posted on 09/21/2023 1:08:54 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: OHPatriot

Any negative that can’t be proven, must be true?

Is that what you’re saying?


28 posted on 09/21/2023 1:09:43 PM PDT by Mr.Unique (My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I'm running that far! )
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To: OHPatriot

“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” - Arthur Conan Doyle/Sherlock Holmes..................


29 posted on 09/21/2023 1:09:56 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Hieronymus

Not guilty. Not named Tiffany. At least in date zone, possibly in wife zone.


Does not appear to be a tranny. And unicorns don’t exist.


30 posted on 09/21/2023 1:14:37 PM PDT by Hieronymus
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To: Red Badger
There is another explanation that might have resulted in the safety stand-down right after this mishap.

The F-35B is the only variant of the F-35 that has an automatic ejection seat. That means that the aircraft can independently fire the ejection seat without pilot intervention if it thinks it's about to crash while in STO/VL operation.

The Martin Baker website: https://martin-baker.com/products/mk16-ejection-seat-for-f-35/

* Auto eject system: Active on STOVL variant only

What if the ejection was uncommanded while the F-35B was hovering, and the aircraft just drifted off after spitting out its pilot?

There may be a flaw in the F-35B's software code that caused this, and the Pentagon doesn't want to reveal that their entire fleet of F-35Bs could buck off their riders at any time. But they did a safety stand-down to attempt to mitigate the issue.

Slowly drifting off in a hover would also explain why:

* Local ATC couldn't track the aircraft. Normally, after the canopy is ejected, you'd think that the radar signature of the aircraft would go way up, but ATC may not track very slow moving aircraft in order to avoid ground clutter.

* A slow drift away while in hover would use up all of the fuel while only traveling 80 miles, hence no fireaball when it crashed.

* As others here have often pointed out, my theories are usually full of bovine excrement.

31 posted on 09/21/2023 1:15:24 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: MNDude

The militia did it! RIGHT AMAZING! ;-o


32 posted on 09/21/2023 1:15:43 PM PDT by JJBookman (Democrats = Party of 100% bull$hitters )
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To: C210N

>Pilot was on a false flag mission, but did not cooperate, and foiled the FF. Possible nuclear, possible aircraft was DEW-equipped, possible destination was NO.

I heard somewhere else that the F-35 was hovering and someone shot it with a civilian gun.


33 posted on 09/21/2023 1:15:56 PM PDT by struggle
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To: Yo-Yo

I heard that as well..............

Kind like your airbag going off without a reason or just a small bump........


34 posted on 09/21/2023 1:16:38 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Truthsearcher
"How do we know the pilot was a “he”?"

The pilot was identifying as a man today.......

35 posted on 09/21/2023 1:19:00 PM PDT by traditional2 (lets go B*and*n)
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To: Red Badger

If you listen to the recording of the EMT when he located the pilot you would understand that the pilot meant he lost sight of the airplane in the weather after he ejected. The statement was in response to the EMT asking where the airplane went.

This has been misunderstood, ballyhooed and promoted as the reason for the bail out. Arm chair quarter backs need to stay in ghe arm chair.

The transmission was not just posted by a meteorologist, it was posted by several. The one I saw and heard was linked on this forum to military.com.

This has been misconstrued and repeated out of context too many times. It really does not bear repeating. We still don’t know why the guy bailed out of a flying airplane. I think he screwed up and pulled the ejection handles somehow. Anybody that was not in the airplane, including me is just guessing though.

“He’s unsure of where his plane crashed, said he just lost it in the weather,” a voice can be heard saying of the pilot on a Charleston County Emergency Medical Services call posted Tuesday by a meteorologist.


36 posted on 09/21/2023 1:21:22 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: struggle

I’m proud of my fellow patriots to see that we are beginning to establish No-Fly Zones in the US.


37 posted on 09/21/2023 1:23:23 PM PDT by oblomov
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To: ConservativeInPA

I figured something like that, too. But they purported that to be a photo of the crash site. It strikes me as ridiculous, too.

But it is curious there are NO photos of the crash site.


38 posted on 09/21/2023 1:23:41 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

“Random tweets by goofballs on Twitter now qualify as news.”

Yep, irrelevant BS. They’re skeptical. So?


39 posted on 09/21/2023 1:23:53 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: Yo-Yo
"What if the ejection was uncommanded while the F-35B was hovering, and the aircraft just drifted off after spitting out its pilot?"

Sounds reasonable to me.

Perhaps the aircraft's AI had different ideas for the flight plan.

40 posted on 09/21/2023 1:25:46 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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