Posted on 09/20/2023 3:40:05 PM PDT by dynachrome
The pilot who ejected from a $100 million F-35 fighter jet 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.
Military officials have not yet released a specific reason for the pilot’s hasty exit, only referring to the incident as stemming from a “malfunction.”
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Could the computer that makes an F-35 flyable have gotten confused by the weather? That would be a story.
From military?
or hospital??
A small point here, but the F-35 doesn’t jettison its canopy when the pilot ejects, but instead fractures the portion above his head with embedded explosive cord and the seat departs through the resulting hole. So it’s likely that the forward portion of the canopy was still intact, which would have bean more aerodynamically clean than a missing canopy.
OK, now I’m starting to sound like Cliff Clavin, so I’ll stop right there.
The F-35B is a complex airplane. In addition to the main engine it has an engine driven liftfan that is shrouded by a large front opening panel that when open extends vertically from the top of th fuselage, and a 90 degree vectoring tail pipe. If any of those parts malfunctions in normal flight the aircraft would become uncontrollable but may not necessarily auger in immediately. If it was in horizontal flight with and of the vertical hardware engaged due to malfunction there’s no telling where the thing would go. It would be interesting to read the accident report but i doubt we’ll ever hear any more about it.
I’ll bet my hamburger stand that it’s a female pilot.
pine trees
In an “all weather” fighter?
bad weather???
somewhere, PukinDog is laughing...
Has anyone checked to make sure Lockheed Martin didn’t install a placard on the panel that reads, “In case of bad weather. pull eject handle?” Would be a great way to ensure repeat business.
Good explanation.
This guy heard it all and this isn’t a joke, but it should be.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/south-carolina-man-reveals-wild-interview-what-he/
Laughed so hard I almost choked.
Maybe he simply forget to enable the “Find My Airplane” app before he took off.
Someone near the crash site said the jet was flying upside down when it crashed.
Maybe that is what the pilot meant - lost it in the weather.
This is EI-EI-O NEWS 13, Buck Wheat reporting. You’re not gonna believe the Screech Owl that thing was macon as it came a crashing down in Da Hood nears by Me!!!
Those AF interceptors were really the stuff, eh?
“Malfunction” conflicts with “weather”. Stories are changing, which means people are probably lying.
LOL
Oh man, that was hilarious. That guy is like a combination of Buckwheat and Chuck Berry.
Oh. That’s another $1,500,000,000,000 well spent by the Pentagram and American sucker taxpayers.
“Don’t miss this video of a local resident with his report of the sound of the plane augering in. You’re in for a treat!
https://twitter.com/phil_lewis_/status/1704525360048611547
Sure to be a new classic up there with Bubb Rubb, Hide Your Wife, Ain’t Got No Time for That, and others”
How did Neon Deion find time to get back home in the middle of the Football season? Colorado is a long way from the East Coast. He truly is amazing, well until this Sat. when he goes to Play Oregon, then USC the following week.The Shine will be off him and Colorado real soon.
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