Missing F-35
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IFE is In Flight Emergency. It's been posted on many articles that it was a "mishap" and that makes me believe it was either a bird strike, pilot error, or an aircraft component malfunction. The latter being unlikely, but it happens. Anything manmade breaks. It's not like a car where you get a flat tire that you can just pull over on the side of the road. If things fail midair your options of recovering an aircraft intact plummet dramatically if it's a critical failure. They've been pretty tight lipped about it until all the facts have been fully investigated, which is normal. I have no doubt the pilot went though his checklist to exhaust all options. Last resort is bailing out and finding a spot for the aircraft to hit the ground. It was a good thing it was in a woods and not on someone's house or in the middle of town. That said, an F-35 is capable of landing on a long road. Norwegian F-35s just did it.
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80 miles the 911 call is pretty funny. We have a pilot that landed in our yard. Heard it on the news this morning.
Look up Cornfield Bomber.. similar that the plane crashed about the same distance away from where the pilot was.
