An F-35B Lightning II fighter crashed while landing at Fort Worth Texan Army Base. The pilot managed to save himself
Posted on: 16-12-2022 20:57
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plane crash for a war jet Model F-35B Lightning II. During the landing maneuver something went wrong and the pilot could not keep the plane straight, it started spinning and crashed onto the runway. That The pilot was able to save himself.
A $100 million plane
The incident happened at Military base in Fort Worth, Texas. An amateur video immortalized the scene and within hours the images were making the rounds on social media.
The cause of the accident is not yet known. The jet produced by the company Lockheed Martinis one of the most advanced models in military aviation and has a price of 100 million dollars.
VIDEO/INCIDENT: Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II crashed during test flight after landing at NAS JRB Fort Worth, TX. yesterday (the Lockheed factory is next to the base). The pilot can be seen getting off the plane.https://t.co/o6chTfa3F8
Credit: Kitt Wilder pic.twitter.com/oYCHxQ43Yl
— Airport Webcams (@AirportWebcams) December 16, 2022
In the video you can see the aircraft stationed absolutely still in the air at an altitude of about 20 meters. Then a slow vertical descent of about 15 seconds begins.
At this point, the plane lands gently on the ground, but something isn’t quite right: the jet cannot remain anchored to the ground and performs a kind of slow rebound.
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Then it suddenly rolls over on its nose, destroying the nose gear and damaging the fuselage.
Then it does a 180 degree turn shrouded in smoke. fearing the worst, the pilot activates the eject command and is thrown out of the cockpit and lands not far from the scene of the accident.
The statement of the manufacturer
“We continue to work with officers at Forth Worth Air Force Base following the F-35 issue. We’re glad the driver involved is safe. Safety remains our top priority and we support the investigation,” Lockheed Martin said in a press release.
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The F-35 problem at the Texas base comes just days after another accident involving a fighter jet, which sadly had a much worse outcome: in Trapani, a young Eurofighter pilot fell to the ground and died, possibly dying are yet to be elucidated.
The newspaper ‘Leggo’ reported as a few days ago the nose gear of another F-35 both collapsed while being towed onto an airstrip in Japan.
And last year, an F-35B fell off the deck of an aircraft carrier and sank in the Mediterranean Sea.
Photo source: ANSA