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?
It may be a bug or it may not. The auto-eject is presumably supposed to happen while the plane is still in an envelope which permits safe ejection, not at the very last instant before the flaming fireball. The safety feature in the software may have ejected the pilot absolutely correctly according to the parameters it was programmed with. That the plane continued "flying" for some time is a testament to the robustness of its fly-by-wire system.
My thinking exactly. If that push comes...I’m buying a Barrett.
Possible stupidest thing I’ve read in a long time.
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If you mean C210N post, TRU DAT !
The real reason the pilot ejected? There was a spider in the cockpit.
*have.
This is why I don't read GP.
Possible stupidest thing I’ve read in a long time.
Try the thread currently running on Jeb. At least that post had imagination.
My wife and I made the guess that the pilot was tooling along in an F-35 being a fighter pilot and suddenly he wasn’t in an F-35 being a fighter pilot while going W.T.F. just HAPPENED?!?!?
The F-35’s hardware and software are riddled with Chinese chips and codes. The Chinese communists were either sending a message to their Chinese appointed President Biden, or it was a test to see if they could cripple or eliminate US airpower.
Of course, we have no idea what we are talking about but we have the internet so we thought we should share.
In 1970 an F-106 Delta Dart on a training mission went into an unrecoverable flat spin forcing the pilot to eject.
After ejection, the jet recovered and flew on for several miles before landing itself in the middle of a cornfield.
The jet received so little damage that it was repaired and returned to service, earning the moniker, "Cornfield Bomber."
It was retired in 1986 and was presented to the National Museum of the United States Air Force where it sits on display to this day.
See: The Day an F-106 Supersonic Fighter Landed Itself in the Middle of a Field
And the likelihood of disappearance is the square of the importance of the meeting you are late for.
Pilot not IFR rated?
Ya think? A story about "insurgents" scoring multiple hits on an F-35, traveling several hundred miles an hour, at an altitude of 2,500 feet, using something firing.50 BMG?
Did the "insurgents" have a couple of batteries of M45 Quadmounts?
Okay. A little weirdness. We live in the low country of SC about 1 1/2 hours from Charleston, twenty minutes from the Beaufort marine base. On Sunday morning I was on my patio, about 9 am, my husband was in the shower. I was looking at the sky just kind of chilling and I saw what appeared, at first, to be a very large, slow moving, very white plane, no contrail, no engine noise and relatively low. As I tried to follow it I realized it was too rounded for an airplane, I called my husband and said he had to look, I think it is a balloon. I grabbed my binoculars and by the time I was able to focus on it, it had gone behind the trees. I thought of it most of the day and still couldn’t think of it as an airplane. It was moving approximately west to east.
IMHO the pilot said what he was TOLD to say!
I think I would want to control any decision to eject.
F-35Bs are not nuclear certified and have no ability to carry and release nuclear weapons. The US Marine Corps has no nuclear capability.
A supposed DEW would be too large to carry by a F-35. I don't think technology has yet to miniaturize a DEW to the size a fighter could carry. Maybe soon but not now.
It happened to a Vietnam war pilot I heard and questioned about how he bailed out at a low altitude ( 2 weeks ago at an Officers luncheon in Florida).
Plane was inverted and damaged pinned him inside the cockpit. Unable to reach main punch out lever but he was eventually able to reach the backup control under his seat.
Said it took him about 7 seconds to hit the ground, luckily vertical, but got stuck in the mud and captured. Spent about 267 days in captivity before being released in 1973.
His slide program on the Hanoi Hilton complex was detailed and amazing, as well as his stories about NVA torture sessions and methods.
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