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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China was my guess.
Some alien just got a new toy for their kids....
;-)
Wanted:
RMB 1,000,000.00 meereeon dorrers for intact prane. Shieh, Shieh. Mr. Shee.
Lemmee see...
We need the public’s help to find an F-35...
But a random theatre managed to capture every second of a US Representatives date night...
Really???
Did they ever find that train car of 60k pounds of missing ammonium nitrate?
We sure are losing a lot of stuff lately. Biden even lost his little pea brain.
If only the pilot had left his phone behind!
Jobama sold it to China and it’s likely in Cuba.
Did the little mishap happen to be we were training enemy pilots again and one decided to take over the jet?
Hope the pilot is OK.
Should have turned off the cloak at bailout.
Pilot is ok.
Jet is...???........................
Not surprising. Sounds totally legit. I know exactly how they must feel because I bought a camouflage shirt a few years ago, hung it up in my closet, and still can’t find that damn thing anywhere.
Meh. SMH.
Is it lost or did the buyer pick it up from the “Big Guy”?
Aren’t there a bunch of missing atomic bombs that we have never recovered after getting lost in plane crashes back in the Cold War era?
The people who noticed the Chinese spy balloons should be able to help - they located the things when seemingly our radar systems were not able to detect them. (I know - our radar systems knew they were there, but biden, in fulfillment of his promise to the chicoms, paid no attention.)
Jet is...???........................
Maintenance is going to need to list that one as NMC (Non-Mission Capable) for airframe issues (missing).
The best tweet in response:
Florida State Board of Education member Ryan Petty quipped, “Joe Biden said we need an F-15 to protect our Constitutional rights, so maybe we’ll just keep this one. We paid for it.”
Other amusing responses in article here:
It’s the VTOL model. Can it do a vertical landing by itself?
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