saw video of this thing in a flat spin today before pilot ejected and it crashed. this is 12 lost to mid air issues already America Just Lost Another F-35 Over Alaska With Tuesday's incident, a dozen F-35s have been completely destroyed following in-flight mishaps. A United States Air Force F-35A Lightning II suffered an “inflight malfunction” on Tuesday afternoon at Eielson Air Force Base (AFB), Alaska, forcing the pilot to eject from the aircraft. According to an official statement, the Lightning II crashed just before 1 pm local (5 pm EST) yesterday, “within the fence line” of the base.
$100M here, $100M there, pretty soon youve got some real money going up in flames At least the pilot parachuted out.
Oh boy. Didn’t know that Is it suspected to be software problems with these F35’s? As I recall Boeing’s issues with the Max crashes were software. Supposedly it was lack of training as well, something that a properly trained pilot would compensate for, but still from a layperson’s perspective it sounded counterintuitive the way the system was operating. If F35 issues are connected to Boeing would definitely be one of those “things that make you go hmmm”.
