We are not getting the full story here. But I bet it isn’t flattering to the Air Force.
“We are not getting the full story here. But I bet it isn’t flattering to the Air Force.”
Er, it was the Marines, but not to put any blame on them. We have our own problems - woke crap being the prime one.
You're not even getting the branch of service right. It was a USMC aircraft. If you can't get that basic fact right, maybe you shouldn't comment.
“We are not getting the full story here. But I bet it isn’t flattering to the Air Force.”
They said it was a Marine F35B.
“We are not getting the full story here.”
Does anyone ever? An interesting article from NBC brings into thought a couple of possibilities.
“”I don’t fault a pilot for bailing out of an aircraft if that’s the right course of action,” Grazier said, adding that the military will want to know if it was done out of mechanical or software failure, pilot error or something else.”
That something else:
“The F-35B has an auto-eject function,” he said. “I’m curious to know if it ejected him involuntarily.”
As for where it went:
“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.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/questions-mount-us-fighter-jet-went-missing-rcna105876
At least AI can work in MacDonald’s restaurants.
wy69
See: "Air Force F-35 Lightning IIs Still Can’t Fly Within 25 Miles Of ... Lightning
And: "F-35: despite improvements, Lightnig II still can’t fly in storms
In early 2022 (before those two articles were published), the Air Force said that upgrades were coming to the aircraft’s fuel system to allow operation near lightning.
There's speculation that lightning brought this plane down, hence the "mishap" story.
It’s a marine plane.
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