F35 crashed in Alaska

[Acorn1]

Pilot ejected.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14336067/...

[FourWheelDrift]

https://x.com/MB_EjectEject/status/188455149267945...

"This was the 10th successful ejection from the F-35"

[aeropilot]

The official USAF statement was comically written, I guess it was 'bring your child to work day' at the base....and some 15 year old wrote this....

"An aircraft incident occurred this afternoon resulting in significant aircraft damage"

[FourWheelDrift]

Those tricky vertical landings.

[AlexIT]

aeropilot said:

The official USAF statement was comically written, I guess it was 'bring your child to work day' at the base....and some 15 year old wrote this....

"An aircraft incident occurred this afternoon resulting in significant aircraft damage"

Reminds me of an little story about italian Carabinieri:

"A small Piper crashed in a cemetery, 25 corpses have been already recovered"

Anyway the above is quite an understatement, they should have added "it'll eventually buff out"

[LotusOmega375D]

FourWheelDrift said:

Those tricky vertical landings.

Perhaps the pilot was ex Marines and thought he was in a B variant?

[Baron Greenback]

Glad the pilot survived just a bit shorter in height now.

[Byker28i]

FourWheelDrift said:

Those tricky vertical landings.

Looking at the video, it was quite high

[Byker28i]

aeropilot said:

The official USAF statement was comically written, I guess it was 'bring your child to work day' at the base....and some 15 year old wrote this....

"An aircraft incident occurred this afternoon resulting in significant aircraft damage"

The pilot experienced an “inflight malfunction” and had declared an inflight emergency prior to the crash
https://apnews.com/article/f35-air-force-jet-crash...