F-35 Crash: U.S. military jet pilot calls 911 from South Carolina home after ejection. Here’s what happened to his plane
US military fighter plane F-35 jet that went missing and crashed called emergency services. It has emerged that the pilot ejected from the fighter plane and pleaded for help from a South Carolina home where his parachute landed. The record of the 911 phone call reveals that first the resident of the home in North Charleston told the dispatcher that there was a pilot in the house and asked for an ambulance.
The pilot took the phone afterward and said that the plane crashed and he had ejected.
He said, «Ma'am, a military jet crashed. I'm the pilot. We need to get the rescue rolling.
I'm not sure where the airplane is. It would have crash-landed somewhere. I ejected.»
F-35 kept on flying without pilot
The bizarre part of the incident is that the plane kept on flying even after the ejection of the pilot.
Explaining it, the Marine Corps said that the flight control software may have helped the plane keep level even without a pilot's hands on the controls. The plane's anti-radar stealth capabilities and technology that wipes the jet's communications system if a pilot ejects, might have hampered the search and rescue operation.
Report submitted to U.S. government
In a significant report submitted to the government, it has been said that inadequate training, a lack of spare parts, and complex repair processes had left the US military's F-35 fleet around 55% effective.
The 96-page report has urged the Department of Defense and the military services to «reassess the future sustainment strategy» of the aircraft model as it plans to spend $1.7 trillion on 2,500 F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jets.
The U.S. military fighter plane went missing and kept on flying for 60 miles before it crashed in South Carolina. The debris of the
