Marines Lose (And Later Find) F-35B

Mover and Gonky discuss the recent news of an F-35B that was lost in South Carolina after the pilot ejected. The aircraft was found two hours away from the ejection site after the filming of this episode. But that didn't stop the memes. Check out SPECTRE RISING: www.amazon.com/Spectre-Rising... Check out The Mover and Gonky Show Mondays at 8PM ET LIVE. • The Mover and Gonky Show
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[@SuperStreetWarrior]

On 4 July 1989, a pilotless MiG-23 jet fighter of the Soviet Air Forces crashed into a house in Bellegem, near Kortrijk, Belgium, killing one person. The pilot had ejected over an hour earlier near Kołobrzeg, Poland, after experiencing technical problems, but the aircraft continued flying for around 900 km (600 mi) before running out of fuel and descending into the ground.

[@ItsEricAZ]

That was an F-106 and I believe he was in a flat spin when he bailed out.

[@russguffee6661]

​@@ItsEricAZdifferent story. The Soviet Union payed reparations to the family.

[@Stlaind]

@@ItsEricAZ You're talking about the Cornfield Bomber (which wasn't a bomber, and didn't hit a cornfield). Similar situation, quite a bit older.

[@shaf3006]

The old and new plane are of a different kind

[@ItsEricAZ]

@@Stlaind Thanks. I couldn't remember the name.

[@wyskass861]

What if the plane ejected the pilot so it could be free and went seeking its own fortune with other F35s, Roombas and disembodied ChatGPTs?

[@crusty251]

I swear I saw couple of 'em GPTs in the comment section here.

[@ytdlder]

lol :D

[@skydriver5709]

The military is working on new programs that incorporate AI so that the jet can take over and basically make the pilot a passenger if they refuse an order like to perform a strike. After hearing about this, I thought of that and wondered if they were testing out the program in a fat Amy. The jet didn't like the pilot and threw him out of the plane. Flew off, did who knows what, and almost landed itself 70 miles away with very little damage considering the circumstances.

[@jcrowley8512]

😂❤😂

[@jerseyshoredroneservices225]

This is why you don't stow your crayons near the ejection handle!

[@candle_eatist]

Mover, I just wanted to say this: you nailed the thumbnail. That is perfection right there.

[@CWLemoine]

Ahthankyou. I try to be a man of culture.

[@CWLemoine]

What does a funny thumbnail have to do with being a Sensitive New Age Pilot? Explain yourself.

[@CWLemoine]

I don’t think you understand the meaning of the terms you’re using.

[@BenTrem42]

@@CWLemoine That didn't seem _sensitive_ and _new age?_ I took your _"a man of culture"_ as you being humorous. p.s. I tried to delete my whole thread here, but only my comment went away.

[@tomm541]

Think that pilot is going to get a new callsign? (Insert new names here)

[@F22raptor46]

From what i heard from Alex Holings, the F-35 didn't have the Luneberg lenses on, and of the few malfunctions it had, the transponder was one of the things malfunctioning too. So it couldn't squak code, and on top of that it's really stealthy

[@knoahbody69]

If a stealth aircraft has a transponder, couldn't an enemy pick up the transponder signal too? Kinda defeats the idea of stealth.

[@estiar1956]

​@@knoahbody69you can turn off the transponder when stealth is needed

[@MichaelD-fn5lv]

It only goes stealth when you're playing on hard mode

[@MattH-wg7ou]

​@@knoahbody69 yes.

[@scrimmo]

@@knoahbody69I’m going to let you in on a fantastic piece of technology we have here on earth, called an off switch.

[@nova3530onyt]

This has got to be one of KZbin's all time greatest thumbnails. Brilliant artistry.

[@happyhome41]

I was a young officer in 1981 assigned to acquisition (yeah, I know, there were the wooden plaques over some desks, "If you ain't a pilot, you ain't shit"). Being a single-engine fighter, their being many problems with the P&W F100 in those days, in my first year, they had lost 120 aircraft -- about half were pilots running into things -- the other half were engine failures of one sort or another. Of course, "they" had mitigated that a little with the incorporation of a hydrazine powered reserve - since the jet was fly by wire - and the genesis of the computer flying the plane while the pilot only provided inputs to the computer - had to have power for the flight computers - power for hydraulics - power for the stick - and of course, instruments and radios. So with 60 aircraft coming down, there were sixty stories. Your mention of the plane flying itself -- reminds me of an engine-out event in California, near Edwards. The pilot lost power, hydrazine was running, he selected a two-lane road to attempt a normal landing. The F-16 also had an early zero altitude ejection seat, so as the pilot got close to the ground, he didn't like the condition of the road, and fearing an upset, he chose to eject. The plane was already in landing mode and continued the gradual glide path to contact. The landing was rough and the plane was a write-off - but it was largely intact. A decision was made to salvage the front half, including the cockpit, and install it as an avionics test bed at the Air Force Research Lab at WPAFB. It's fun hearing y'all talk operator stuff without pooping on the support.

[@WilliamMurphy-uv9pm]

Pilot was in a F-35 and not a F-16.

[@gerryjamesedwards1227]

I think it's particularly cunning viral marketing. I'd be very surprised if the phrase "so stealthy even the USMC can't find them!" doesn't make it in to future brochures.

[@nicolashalseth2591]

But anyone who knows anything knows that we've lost much less 'stealthy' aircraft plenty of times. So, that's a pretty expensive PR campaign that doesn't really mean anything.

[@stever7638]

In my best Jeffrey Pelt voice..... "You lost another aircraft"?

[@LordKegger76]

Love the reference! Perfect👍🏻👍🏻

[@laurab.9318]

They'd have never found it without the big comb.

[@jeffreyskoritowski4114]

Nice Space Balls reference.

[@ardyzink7928]

Before both of you guys were born, a pilot claimed he lost control of an F-106, got tired of arguing with it so he punched out. He survived as did the F-106 who flew itself on its merry way and landed quite nicely in a farm field. (Properly with its gear up).

[@oldmech619]

FYI. That F106 that landed itself is on display in Dayton Ohio. It had been removed and returned to service.

[@kfw9257]

F-35: "I was lost and now I'm found"

[@kiwidiesel]

I'm down here in New Zealand, Have one low hour F35 in my back yard under a tarp. Open to offers.

[@nigeh5326]

Will you take a 1971 RAF Harrier in part exchange? Low mileage 1 not so careful owner 😃 kzbin.info/www/bejne/raern32Mr7uercksi=2ZJzr4yqV1Eo3g6i

[@ItsEricAZ]

The plane was found roughly 70 miles north in a field. One reported photo shows it from the front with main landing gear down and significant damage/buckling forward of the wings. Wings and vertical surfaces appear to be relatively undamaged. Keep in mind jets almost never fly far (maybe 2 miles) without a pilot onboard. Thus the first focus is on the pilot riding the silk to the ground. The only other story I remember is the F-106 that landed in one piece in a snowy farmers field back in the 1960s or so where the plane kept flying after the pilot bailed out. In that case, it was a flat spin that was considered unrecoverable, except the ejection apparently pushed the jet out of the spin. Crazy story.

[@SoloRenegade]

a russia plane flew over europe in the cold war unmanned, Mig23 if I recall. A private jet flew over the gulf coast for hours after the pilot died of hypoxia. Planes are generally very stable and want to fly.

[@Andrew-13579]

What would have been funny is if the F-35, unmanned, engaged two F-15s over Virginia in mock-ACM, defeating them, and then landed at Cherry Point. 😂

[@wyskass861]

Which begs the question of why the pilot ejected

[@zerofire3172]

​@@wyskass861could be like georgia where a10 sensors go crazy bc of some insects laying eggs in the plane and pilot ejects bc his plane told him to

[@wyskass861]

@@zerofire3172 You'd think the F35 isn't as susceptible to such things, but it'll be interesting to find out from the report.

[@thestimp1]

We didn't lose it, it just took a TDY and didn't fill out its 4392.

[@oneone1795]

Launch mover in the SAR chopper! He’ll find that downed f-35!

[@sparrowlt]

The spaceballs comb makes instalike forever this video

[@i-likemy-space7729]

The Marines have been flying longer than the Air Force. Pilot should have adjusted his seat height before taking off. Getting the handles mixed up in flight is not going to look good on the pilot's next performance review!

[@jaydubb71]

When I saw Gonky pop up on the screen, I yelled out YES BOTH OF THEM IN THIS VIDEO LOL LMAO

[@ethanthompson9211]

Leave it to a Marine to get dumped (ejected) by Fat Amy on the ride home from a hop.

[@icaleinns6233]

oh man, you two had me rolling in this one!

[@boblynch2802]

Well the F-35 was designed to basically not be found.

[@richb313]

Just thanks for posting this video you two guys are a comedy team.

[@subjectc7505]

I still find it funny, that something so advanced had to be looked for like it was a lost puppy. You would have thought, with all that technology you'll be able to track it's flight plan.

[@toddie4usa1]

No not if the jet strayed from its course after ejection

[@subjectc7505]

@@toddie4usa1 You can still track the flight data even if it's off course. Technology has advanced so far, you can track flights from the Start to the end, even if they crash you can pinpoint the exact location but again not every company can afford such technology.

[@Chzydawg]

I think it’s quite counter-intuitive to have a 5th-gen stealth fighter be able to be tracked. I may be wrong, but not being able to track it sounds like whole point of it.

[@subjectc7505]

@@Chzydawg If you're trying to prevent something with sensitive data and technology ending up in the wrong hands, being more advanced than an F-16 with all the bells and whistles, not one person thought to microchip it or have some encrypt system onboard to make it easier to find it. It's crazy you can know the exact moments of a jet liner but can't find something that's 10x more "advanced".

[@ztyy8185]

for some reason 'unable to track' that is what exactly you want from jet fighter

[@MohamedSalah-lb6ju]

Well look at the bright side the plane is stealth 😂😂😂

[@bestchoiceaccess9928]

If they post some of it's photo around the neighborhood that might help, I did that with my dog, later was found. I am glad the pilot is save and no one accidently injured by this mishap.

[@tjbjornson154]

Sounds like the AI in F35 and the pilot, both being Marines, had a disagreement about who got the green crayon and the plane threw the pilot overboard.

[@mikem.s.1183]

Good Lord. This has to be, in conjunction with Gonky's story of that mate who bailed out accidentally, one of the oddest mishaps in years. Hot Shots! (1991 movie) could not have done it better.

[@BenTrem42]

The guy who thought he was grabbing O2 tank?

[@phoenixexploration3301.1]

"Well Air Force, If you can't take care of your toys; Mommy and Daddy will not buy you any new ones"!!!

[@WALTERBROADDUS]

You know we have a couple lost nuclear weapons we still have unaccounted for over the years.

[@billbrockman779]

In the Savannah River delta apparently.

[@manifold1476]

6:36 Nice try, Mover, to get Gonky to spew his coffee all over the studio, but he has better control than I have.🤣🤣🤣

[@ckolonn]

The M&G Show never disappoints 👍

[@markaoslo5653]

_Unrelated to the discussion:_ (am I just now, noticing?) Your graphics, audio, and layout, are really looking top-notch! 👍 👍 😎 Cheers-

[@electricaviationchannelvid7863]

There is not always a fireball, we had a jet crash into soft soil with engines on and went meters deep, almost nothing visible sticking out...

[@CalvinMaclure]

That thumbnail though! 😆

[@rondickens2257]

They're always on autopilot - they just let you think you're driving. My Dad woul liked that. He flew F-4's out of Thailand in the 60's, & F-100's around the Iron Curtain in the 70's.

[@leifvejby8023]

Some dude ejected from a Hunter over Denmark - it just glided down and performed a belly landing on the runway. A Harrier ate a goose and it lost power because of festhers in the fan, pilot ejected and blew the feathers off the fan and the Harrier climbed back up and disappeared. Jets seems to disappear all the time.

[@ztyy8185]

'find my F-35' on android hhahaa 🤣😂😂🤣🤣

[@Dyson_Cyberdynesystems]

William Tell 2023 just concluded in Savannah and while the Marines werent part of it the Airspace has been pretty busy.

[@toddandersen5742]

No one goes home until we find it. Grab an MRE ....🤣

[@Chris61136]

F22 is now and will forever be the superior aircraft

[@Chzydawg]

Who the hell gave marines current technology? This is an outrage, after this they should be relegated to nighthawk’s or some other prehistoric jet and made to think about what they’ve done.

[@rogerwilco5918]

Why do you need an F-35 to jump over the side of a ship and battle on another ship? The entire concept of the Marine Corps is obsolete

[@glacieractivity]

As a Norwegian I love the US Marines - but this comment made me giggle. Make due, my friends.

[@arbysandtehchief5494]

I mean, they're still flying Harriers that should have been retired 10 years ago so...

[@johnp1657]

It was in Stealth Mode, lmfao

[@ytdlder]

Nice one on the Spaceballs reference!

[@peterfinucane8122]

Need to have a "Lost F35 Soundtrack". First is "Cant Find My Way Home".

[@FatherExo]

For Gonky, it’s 501, B trainers. It had to have been a CC, doesn’t make sense to have sorties for the trainees on a Sunday. And for Mover, yes the 35 has a auto trim which is more than likely why it flew for so long after ejection but the seat should have zeroized the jet so at that moment it drops off ATC and I *think* since it would presumably drop alignment, the auto trim would also drop? But I’m unsure about that. I worked on 35s but my memory on COMNAV is a bit hazy on it

[@KPMACHINE1]

HAL did not approve of the pilots inputs and pushed him out.

[@MilitantOldLady]

Fat Amy ejects through the canopy?!

[@willpugh8865]

People genuinely shocked that its hard to find a stealth fighter jet, 😂 “Wheres the tracker? “ kinda defeats the purpose of the stealthiness ya know

[@head3749]

When not at war, and flying within domestic airspace, i would assume they have to sqauk like all other air traffic, othewise atc would be sending 737's and god knows what else in its flight path, unless mission was to be stealth and within say a training area, @mover can you confirm or deny, fast jets are normally sqauking? Domestically

[@andrewfowler2711]

One slightly used stealth fighter available Recently acquired. One not so careful owner Awaiting a V5 / Pink Slips. Below average mileage but some light damage caused while unattended. Any questions.

[@trentvlak]

Asking the public for help shouldn't be shamed. The public is a powerful user base that contributes massively to such things like finding killer asteroids and locating clues to falsified text messages.

[@patmurphy3410]

An undisclosed mishap in the cockpit? Did the pilot see a spider??😂

[@michaelkalbfleisch4492]

I thought most modern combat jets had a system that would push the stick fwd after an ejection. There was an F-106 that got into a spin, flamed out and after the pilot could not successfully relight the engine he ended up punching out. The ejection pushed the nose down, the continuous ignition restarted the engine (which was at idle for the airstart) and made a gentle descent and landing on a farmers snowy field. The crash landing did little damage and the F-106 was trucked off and eventually repaired back to flying condition. After that the Air Force modified F-106 (and I assumed other fighters) to kick the stick down after ejection.

[@reasonsformoving]

Just listening now. Curious if you guys talk about whether the reports about the 35 could be hacked is plausible.

[@davidorth4906]

Found. Old black dude saw it inverted, then Boom. He wondered about America and called the next morning to the FAA. He said "Wazzup with a F-35b. I saw one yesterday.".

[@mscottfq70]

This will be the sequel to the “Great Santini” I just know it. The pilot obviously forgot to hook up his kill switch. Can happen to the best of us!!

[@FlyingAce1016]

Hey Mover the 9 1 1 call for the pilot that ejected was just released.

[@Evocati-Augusti]

When you make a jet so stealth , you can't even find it...

[@crazyyoda8721]

That moment when the Government ask its citizens to help find there 5th Gen Fighter

[@liberatumplox625]

Dock their crayon rations immediately!

[@aerykhurley8236]

MOVER! I own a print shop in utah, id love to support your channel! We can make you stickers, banners, laser engraved goodies, etc! Im not looking for anything in return, just want to support a badass guy with a great cause!

[@Aokitadamitsu]

LOL @gonkey "this is probably going to get me a hostile renaming.." LOL NO SHIT..

[@HootOwl513]

One of our Harrier pilots flamed out on final at MCAS Iwakuni [RJOI] in '76. A/C had capacitance fuel level sensing -- calibrated wrong. He scraped it in. Unhurt, but he spent the rest of his tour checking out basketballs at base Special Services.

[@snakesden7669]

Funny you bring up the F-16 and China, when my gal told me about this, I instantly thought of the movie FireFox... LOL

[@toddie4usa1]

Just a thought! This is the second F35B VMFAT501 has lost the first being in 2018. Did the crayon eaters not learn from the previous mishap or is there something lacking in the training. This is the USMC training squadron so what is going on here??? 🤔

[@Chzydawg]

I’m just surprised they’ve been given something newer than an f-18.

[@charlesvt2010]

Been waiting on ya

[@michaelcorleone2794]

B stands for BEGONE

[@katanamaki9015]

Sounds eerily familiar to the cornfield bomber!

[@ferdberffle]

They found it in a pawn shop in Fayetteville 😂😂

[@GrowHighO]

Best episode yet.

[@JustJeff78]

What baffles me is if the plane was driving itself, why the hell did he punch out in the first place?

[@mikolajgrotowski]

Its hapens, as with MiG 23 story from 89 plane with pilot has problem who vanish after jump. I remember situation when glider go in flat spin, so pilot jump, but after this jump and change in weight glider straight flight and land safely without pilot.

[@oldjarhead386]

Maybe the aircraft stopped responding to pilot input. Possible in FBW A/c.

[@mikegarneau9162]

Just looked it, the pilot landed about 2 blocks off the northend of the Charleston International/ AFB.

[@mikegarneau9162]

Must of been outbound as jet was said to be found 2 hrs northeast of Charleston AFB. MCAS Beaufort is about 60 miles south of Charleston

[@oldmech619]

Most fighters do not have an ELT. The ejection seat does. After safe landing, the antenna needed to be broken off. Then the pilot would talk on the hand held emergency radio.

[@oldjarhead386]

They aren’t actually an ELT. But more of a communication beacon. Yes, there is a difference.

[@stotheh]

So the guy who ejected by accident, would that end your flying career or is there a route back to operations from that? I remember in the PBS series Carrier the dude who couldn't get down and had to divert to Baghdad International wasn't allowed to fly for the rest of that deployment.

[@scottb9868]

Most likely if it was his error he be out or flying chickens to Ecuador in a Cessna.

[@RyanDanger1776]

His punishment will be that he will still have to fly the F35.

[@knoahbody69]

If there's a war and there's a shortage of experienced pilots, maybe.

[@latoyamcdonald4444]

​@@scottb9868 more like flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong

[@EbonySeraphim]

Ejecting by accident, or any pilot mistake, within reasonably articulated and behavioral norms for whatever situation was unfolding is exactly how flying is made safer. Procedures and rules are put in place that will avoid the possibility with future pilots; and/or some part of the plane’s controls are adjusted to be made safer.

[@jollygreen4662]

Ejected while still on autopilot? Is that possible?

[@subjectc7505]

The F-35 has so many problems you can on the ground and you're suddenly in the air the next moment.

[@zymuralchemy]

It probably wasn't an autopilot per se situation. If the pilot say, was having O2 issues and couldn't breathe, or had a panic attack, or who knows what, and hit the Yeet Seat, so long as the aircraft was relatively stable it would merrily continue. Gonky and Mover talk about this in the video --the F35 is a pure fly-by-wire ship. The controls aren't connected to the control surfaces, they're connected to a series of computers which go "Hey surfaces, the pilot has inputted hard stick left, I think they want to roll left, make that happen." Such a plane getting no inputs at all will automatically trim to 1g, and just level out and go straight like a Cessna would. Combine that with the aircraft's crash avoidance system, which would auto-pullup over terrain if need be, and yeah, Amy's going on a cross country tour.

[@rogerwilco5918]

​@@subjectc7505huh?

[@SSJ4Brohan]

The taxpayers want their money back.

[@chillaxin2012lhs]

I paid more than 150 K in taxes over the last two years. I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!!!!! This Government is completely Incompetent. Taxation Without Representation. What a Pathetic Embarrassment.

[@thestimp1]

My guess is he didnt eject, it kicked him, just like last years f35 mishap.

[@TeViiNz]

This happened about 100 miles south of me. The F35s actually stopped at my local airport to refuel and I was able to see them both takeoff. I will say there was a really bad thunderstorm rolling through the area during the time this happened so I wonder if that had anything to do with the plane malfunctioning? maybe struck by lightening?

[@SlowrideSteve]

I wa still hoping on the worlds fastest stealth bass boat. Too bad they found it

[@WifeMadeThaStew]

When your wingman ditches literally over a subdivision maybe make sure the plane doesn’t fly into a church or shopping mall? Maybe there were no wingmen?

[@edschoenstein1893]

Love the satire clip😂

[@user-xr7hz9wg7f]

Along the the lines of the F 106 in the 70’s. Pilot ejected aircraft flew off then landed itself. Returned to service.

[@AM201060]

What happened to the special headgear assembly that is supplied to F 35 pilots? Did he store it before jumping or did it fly off into never never land when he jumped.

[@oldjarhead386]

Probably still on his head.

[@channelview8854]

465,000 USD, or so I'm told.

[@Thunderer0872]

Your're telling me there not a low jack on an F35 now? LOL

[@toddie4usa1]

Well we know stealth works! 😆

[@djsmith2871]

60 miles is a long way for an airplane to just jaunt along on its own. That's almost to Myrtle Beach. In fact, had it just spun itself around, it could have flown itself back to Beaufort.

[@bocefusmurica4340]

Erm, drift down from altitude at 3:1 with no fuel gets you 60 miles at 20,000 feet. The engine was running, sooo.

[@djsmith2871]

​@@bocefusmurica4340I'm saying a lot of sh!t can happen in 60 miles.

[@deepspacecow2644]

@@djsmith2871 The f35 has automated systems to prevent crashes iirc

[@djsmith2871]

@@deepspacecow2644 Well they seem to have really worked well in this case.

[@captaintoyota3171]

Depending on altitude

[@CosmasNDamian]

Absence of post-crash fire (which would have skylined it immediately). Fuel exhaustion unlikely. Fire suppression?

[@shawn2443]

Mover. Any idea on the heifers load ?? 🤔

[@bigikediesel]

We use Bouncie at my company to track our trucks. Does the F35 have an OBDII port?

[@michaelmurley177]

I was sitting in a deer stand getting buzzed by SLED. Wondering why SLED was up in their 407 in IFR, riding the edge of a thunderstorm.

[@JamesJones-gg2wu]

Things happen to Marines... quote from intruders

[@karenmedak6361]

Very Very Glad They Were Able to Find the F35. Hoping it didn’t hit any thing when it Crashed or Hurt Any One when it Crashed. Very Very Glad the Pilot was Found Too that Ejected Safely. Also Hoping Things will Turn Out OK for The Pilot as Well. I’m Still Watching All Your Videos Love Your Content MOVER and GONKY and WOMBAT and YOU Have the BEST WINGMAN , BRO’s. I Mean That You Got This Are Great and show it on Your Topics And to the Guests You Have Invited to be on Your Show to Hear and Listen to Their Stories is also Awe Inspiring To Anyone Who Wants to be in any Aviation Field Because of Your Honesty and Witt It is also so Funny to hear the F35 and F22 are Called Fat Amy’s at least the Jet found a Good Place to be for Someone to FINALLY FIND IT Fat Amy And All Her Glory Just Sad to See She Didn’t Make It in One Piece at the End Looks like She Tried Though To Do it Right . 😂 Yes, you have to have the Funny in there to. It makes it All Great to Hear Say Hi to Lester, and Hoping You Can Get to Flying Helicopters again Missing the One 708SH I think it was Hoping Soon for You Both Take Care Out There Maybe Next Month I Can Buy Some Books And Add Some $$ to Your Fund. Maybe Maybe I Just Can’t Do Anything Right Now this Month Hoping You Can Understand.

[@marcmcgaugh1975]

Reminded me of the old British ww2 movie called, "One of our aircraft is Missing"

[@knndyskful]

First off: I thought fighter jets had transponder is the same as any other aircraft? Second: the pilot is probably grounded for life and will lose his flight status?

[@FirstDagger]

Dos Gringos always fits.

[@TheNathanBrand]

You would figure the autopilot would disconnect as soon as the jet senses AOS (ass off seat) 😂🤷🏼‍♂️

[@adrienroy9310]

I'm in the Charleston area. The pilot ejected over north charleston, NOT a good place to land. They speculated It may have crashed in Lake Moultrie, which is a mile from me. I thought that's a fair distance from north Charleston, not sure how it can go that far with no pilot, and the plane possibly being in a condition he felt he needed to eject from. I watched a 2 seat viper go down over the river around 15 years ago. Those guys punched out and the plane immediately went into the river, i got on the news for witnessing that. Anyhow, now sure, but it seems they may have found parts or the whole plane in Williamsburg County North west of me and Moultrie. Still a good distance from North Charleston. He punched out over a heavily populated area. Aside from losing an f35, the pilot got lucky the plane kept cruising. The whole situation is weird though.

[@Montana_Outdoor_Adventures]

Spatial disorientation brought on by IMC and possibly a new low hour aviator (VMFAT-501). Just a thought.

[@rodneyackermann5354]

I thought the intention of a stealth fighter is to avoid detection. Seems that part of the design works really well 😅

[@skagerstrom]

Hey! Mover called Lockheed-Martin Lockmart. Is that a common thing? I thought that abbrivation was an Alien thing (the Nostromo is a Lockmart CM-88B Bison).