Japanese F-35 Crashes In Pacific Ocean East of Misawa Airbase
It did not take long for the Japanese to crash one of their F-35’s:
Search and rescue teams found wreckage from a crashed Japanese F-35 stealth fighter in the Pacific Ocean close to northern Japan, as efforts to find the missing pilot continued, authorities said on Wednesday.
The aircraft, less than one-year-old, was the first F-35 to be assembled in Japan and was aloft for only 28 minutes on Tuesday before contact was lost, a defense official said. The plane had logged a total of 280 hours in the air since its first flight, he added.
Reuters
It is only the second F-35 to crash in the two-decades it has been flying and could reignite concern about the F-35 having only one engine.
You can read more at the link, but hopefully they are able to recover the pilot. It will be interesting to see what the cause of the crash is because this was pretty much a brand new aircraft with only 280 flight hours.
This really sucks. 🙁
I read the pilot had 3200 hours. Takes a long while to get that much time in a fighter…so I doubt it was pilot error.
Oh, noes! It’s the old “Asian driver” stereotype!
Of course, we hope the pilot will be found alive and well. Shame about the aircraft; but military training flights are often as dangerous as “the real thing.”
Downloaded the Maxx B software package. OOPS!
If it were an F-18 wouldn’t have happened… juz sayin… 😎
Liz, interest you in a couple 18’s? 😀