Posted on 09/18/2023 6:56:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
A U.S. fighter jet’s stealth abilities appear to be working too well, with authorities forced to ask the public for help finding an F-35 that went missing somewhere over South Carolina when the pilot ejected due to a “mishap.”
Joint Base Charleston, an air base in North Charleston, said it was working with Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort to "locate an F-35 that was involved in a mishap" on Sunday afternoon.
The pilot was able to safely eject from the aircraft, an F-35B Lightning II jet, and was taken to a local medical center in stable condition, the air base said in a Facebook post at around 5:35 p.m. ET.
The condition of the pilot was not immediately clear as of Monday morning. The circumstances surrounding the "mishap" also remained unclear. Joint Base Charleston and the U.S. Air Force did not immediately respond to overnight requests for comment from NBC News.
Joint Base Charleston asked the public to "cooperate with military and civilian authorities" as the effort to locate the jet continued. "If you have any information that would assist the recovery teams, please call the JB Charleston Base Defense Operations Center at 843-963-3600."
The air base said it was focusing its attention north of its air base around Lake Moultrie and Lake Marion based on the jet's last-known position and coordination with the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The incident attracted some criticism, with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) asking in a social media post: "How in the hell do you lose an F-35?"
"How is there not a tracking device and we’re asking the public to what, find a jet and turn it in?" Mace wrote.
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Can Vlad or President Xi lend a hand.
They need Yoda.
Of the other 2 (I can’t read the name of 1) they have never been found and their disappearances still a mystery (the far left one David, strongly suspected a murder victim, the other lost on a hike with his grandpa in a mtn area).
Sad…I always wondered what happed to all those lost children.
The designers should not have put the ejector seat button next to the CD player. /s
A few years ago, a passenger airliner went down in the Everglades. It went nearly straight down and the debris field was very small. Most of the aircraft was confined to a small hole in the mud...............
There is still a missing atomic bomb in that area from a B-47 crash in the 50s.
Take that Joe Biden don’t need no stinkin F15, got me an F35.
Yep. That’s where they found a missing F8U-2N in NC.
See also ‘The Man Who Rode The Thunder’ by William H. Rankin Lt. Col., USMC.
“You’ve lost ANOTHER jet, Milley???!!!”
I’m not trying to second-guess our military, being that they are the brightest and best and all that. But.........people can track down their cell phone to its exact location. The government can track our cars and our every move. One would think they would apply some of that technology to keeping up with an F-35. Wouldn’t you think?
Can we just do an “Amber” alert? Can they give us a “last spotted” location and a description of what it was wearing?
Guess Aaron Rodgers wasn’t the only missing Jet this week.
F35 has passive, automatic pilot eject. And can probably be flown remotely. I bet it’s on the way to the waiting arms of Iranians or Chinese somewhere courtesy of the Biden Crime Family.
“Now, understand, Colonel, that plane crashed in the ocean near the unrecovered remains of the Chinese weather balloon. You saw it crash. And I was never here.”
Maybe it’s not self-identifying as a jet any more.
Maybe it believes it’s a peacock..................
Give them no credit. Everything about this story is an obvious lie. I think the aircraft is in Ukraine already.
CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! WELL DONE!!!😂
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