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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But no. The pilot lost track of the plane because of the weather. So ze - the Post has obviously misgendered zir here - ze landed on Terra Firma without the ability to tell where zir aircraft ended up. I'm only guessing earthward was the answer, but I'm not a pilot.
It gets worse. The Marines then hijacked a wrecker towing a '57 Chevy, tarped it up, and told the base commander it was fine, they'd recovered everything. "Oh really?" sez the CO, "I'm hearing an AM radio tuned to a country channel coming from that thing." Well, everybody knows Gen Z doesn't listen to Hank so the jig was up. The reporters, having been told that Trump was not to blame, were long since headed back to their Georgetown watering holes and there was a pissed off local with a shotgun at the main gate who was yelling that he wanted his Chevy back. The CO turns to the PAO and sez, "Son, yer on yer own."
Well, that's how it would have happened when I was in...
Right?
I want to hear what he has to say about many things! He seems real and genuine.
Was he instrument rated?
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Only in our ‘woke’ Marine Corps will this story be believed. As a former Marine, we are in serious shape as a fighting force IF this is the full story. My guess is that the pilot pulled the ejection lever believing he/she was about to collide with an object straight ahead. Was it a UFO?
F-35s are equipped with transponders that allow the aircraft to be tracked. But military officials initially said the transponder did not appear to be working but were unsure why.”
Probably used Amazon batteries to save $.
The wreckage was found yesterday. The plane was obviously on AP and the ejection did not kick it out. This has happened many times.
Total bs.
Crashed F-35s are our strength.
How hard is it to keep it in the doughnut and communicate?
I smell diversity diapers on this pilot.
Yea, yea, we know, the guards were asleep, and the cameras were magically turned off. Oh, it’s an F-35. Oh, OK then. Same kinda thing. It’s somewhere training Uranian pilots.
POST OF THE DAY!
Haven’t seen it mentioned yet but maybe the “malfunction” was the pilot his/her/its/ self? These geniuses are all clotshotted and a mental hickup wouldn’t be out of the question. Seeing bad weather? Not doing the preflights? Not knowing the heading? Sounds like a whole string of mental foobars? There have been plenty of commercial pilot fade outs reported that have obviously been traced to the clotshots. Not the plane’s fault in any case-—it kept flying.
That’s funny!
“Oh, wait!! I didn’t lose it. I’m still sitting in the cockpit inside the plane. Silly me.”
what kind of military aviator bails out of an operational plane?
Ans: someone who doesnt deserve to wear wings, or even be in the military.
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