Excellent. You made me think for a minute there. It’s only Sunday evening. But if you don’t get a ‘Cleverest Post of the Week’ award, then the contest is fixed.
Posted on 09/17/2023 8:23:54 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
U.S. military officials are searching for a missing F-35 jet after a "mishap" caused its pilot to eject on Sunday afternoon.
Joint Base Charleston said on Facebook that the aircraft was a Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II belonging to Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort. The pilot ejected safely and was transported to a local medical center.
The base is working with Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort to help locate the missing aircraft. Emergency response teams have been deployed to find the jet.
"Based on the jet’s last-known position and in coordination with the FAA, we are focusing our attention north of JB Charleston, around Lake Moultrie and Lake Marion," Joint Base Charleston said in a statement on Facebook.
"The public is asked to cooperate with military and civilian authorities as the effort continues," the base added.
Anyone with information about the jet's whereabouts is urged to contact JB Charleston Base Defense Operations Center at 843-963-3600.
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- Engineer it to be as hard as possible to find
- Lose one
- Ask the public to help you find it
Nothing to see here move along get those F-16’s to Ukraine so they have to be replaced with F-35’s.
Nothing to see here move along get those F-16’s to Ukraine so they have to be replaced with F-35’s.
Do the CCP own the land where the plane “landed”?
Lost and Found pages: I have a slightly damaged F-35 fighter jet in my pasture. If you can can confirm you are the true owner with proper identification call me back at BR-549.
I posted the same article and have asked that my thread be deleted since this one was a minute or so before mine.
It would be interesting to know exactly what happened but I doubt we will ever really know.
I’m so glad the pilot has been found. Hopefully he will be okay.
So, where is the aircraft?
“Lost and Found pages: I have a slightly damaged F-35 fighter jet in my pasture. If you can can confirm you are the true owner with proper identification call me back at BR-549.”
Junior Samples here. I understand you have found my missing aircraft? Please ship it to Hee Haw Lane, Redneck City, USA. The postmaster knows where I live.
I bet gremlins took it.
Sounds like the pilot accidentally pressed the 'Mishap' button.
Nah! It was aliens. It had to be aliens.
(Since the pilot has been recovered, we can joke about this. The people who will pay for a new one have deep pockets).
Excellent. You made me think for a minute there. It’s only Sunday evening. But if you don’t get a ‘Cleverest Post of the Week’ award, then the contest is fixed.
Will, do, Junior!
Hee-haw!
Missing? Did it continue to fly without its pilot? Like the famous F-106 here? https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/interceptor.html
Wow! The Military seems incompetent. Happy the pilot is okay.
A mishap>? Enough to cause a pilot to eject? Odd.
Any chance it carries a few nukes?
Hopefully the pilot left his cell on the plane……press “find my phone”
If I can find my car , the USMC should be able to find a plane.
Soooo...I guess it REALLY is invisible.
I thought that was ‘invisible’ to other planes and to radar... not to someone looking at a pile of metal in a field.
It get's more odd. Peculiar even.
Officials said another pilot flying an F-35B Lightning II enabled an unspecified automated flight system and ejected over North Charleston.
So the pilot enable auto pilot and then ejected?
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