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F-35 pilot ejected from $100M jet over South Carolina due to ‘bad weather’ as experts reveal why plane couldn’t be tracked
NY Post ^ | 9-20-23 | Selim Algar

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: aircraft; badweather; ejected; f35; fighterjet; missingf35; southcarolina; weather
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To: dynachrome
Great writing here. I too was initially under the impression that it was weather that caused the punch-out. And I'm thinking, you know, for another $20 billion we could have put rubber gaskets and a retrofitted windshield wiper on that plane.

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...

81 posted on 09/20/2023 4:42:38 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: broken_clock

Right?

I want to hear what he has to say about many things! He seems real and genuine.


82 posted on 09/20/2023 4:42:45 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: thinden

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?


83 posted on 09/20/2023 4:42:51 PM PDT by iontheball
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To: whitney69

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 $.


84 posted on 09/20/2023 4:43:56 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: vortigern
I’m fairly certain these aircraft can fly above any bad weather.

My thoughts exactly and if he/she/they weren't already above the weather just pull back the stick, gas pedal to the floor and less than 30 seconds you're in beautiful clear blue skies. This stinks to high heaven.
85 posted on 09/20/2023 4:44:29 PM PDT by 762X51
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To: dynachrome
He didn't have time to activate the beacon? It is automatically activated as soon as he ejects. He lost it in weather? That makes no sense, the F-35 has one of the most sophisticated GPS nav systems on the planet. Did he ice up, which should never happen if you are an experienced pilot or have his engine FODDED by ice? There is something very fishy about this.
86 posted on 09/20/2023 4:44:52 PM PDT by SCConservative58
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To: dynachrome

"What's this button for?"

87 posted on 09/20/2023 4:46:06 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: CFW
"Wasp" by Eric Frank Russell


88 posted on 09/20/2023 4:46:28 PM PDT by null and void ( Fall Is Here: Pumpkin Spice-Scented Children Presented To Joe Biden)
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To: thinden
ALL military pilots have instrument cards. And they have to be recertified annually. It was a PITA to lose half a day of work to go be bored in Instrument School but you could not fly without it.
89 posted on 09/20/2023 4:47:24 PM PDT by SCConservative58
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To: Jyotishi

The wreckage was found yesterday. The plane was obviously on AP and the ejection did not kick it out. This has happened many times.


90 posted on 09/20/2023 4:49:21 PM PDT by SCConservative58
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To: dynachrome

Total bs.


91 posted on 09/20/2023 4:50:19 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Da Coyote

92 posted on 09/20/2023 4:52:50 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: dynachrome

Crashed F-35s are our strength.


93 posted on 09/20/2023 4:56:08 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Try That In A Small Town" - Jason Aldean rules!)
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To: dynachrome
Calm, climb, communicate. If they let a non Instrument rated and current pilot fly an F-35, they need to send the pilots commander to Levinworth for 20 years.

How hard is it to keep it in the doughnut and communicate?

I smell diversity diapers on this pilot.

94 posted on 09/20/2023 4:56:30 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: dynachrome

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.


95 posted on 09/20/2023 5:04:14 PM PDT by fightin kentuckian
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To: CFW

POST OF THE DAY!


96 posted on 09/20/2023 5:04:48 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: SCConservative58

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.


97 posted on 09/20/2023 5:06:03 PM PDT by OldWarBaby
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To: CFW

That’s funny!


98 posted on 09/20/2023 5:06:11 PM PDT by parmamenian (and so it goes!)
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To: dynachrome

“Oh, wait!! I didn’t lose it. I’m still sitting in the cockpit inside the plane. Silly me.”


99 posted on 09/20/2023 5:08:27 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: CFW
BINGO! It was probably a woman. OR a girly man.

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.

100 posted on 09/20/2023 5:09:47 PM PDT by Ikeon (Dont like what you see? then look away. )
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