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Williamsburg county. Where my mama’s side of the family calls home. Wow.

What's the country like in that area?

That crashed F35 is the most valuable thing in Williamsburg county........and now it's going to be leaving....

Swampy, pine trees and crops. Just called my cousin who has two of the family’s farms right where the jet went down. They found two pieces of debris from a jet on the property. Crazy

Looking for a deer, naturally.

That's pretty crazy indeed!

If it's really the f35. Our govt will cover up anything. Ironically, conspiracy theories are ending up being true lately

Got a call from my cousin. Now their road is blocked off and they are in the swamp looking on the property. Paisley Swamp off Bartells Road. Wow.

They didn't hear anything?

Wonder how the deer made out? With all those trigger happy gubmint peeples around.

They are at the beach nearby. Cousins kids stayed there bow hunting. No word if they saw or heard anything.

Funny thing is, IF they find more debris or the whole jet, it’ll be the second military jet crash on the farm in fifteen years.

Is that pilot named Walker by chance?

The AF designate their farms as ditching areas? 😉

The farm might be in a flight route. My cousin piloted B-52’s in Nam and later for SAC. They had what was called back then “oil burner routes” where they practiced low altitude flying, etc. Oil burner route 17 went right over the county seat where this happened and the family’s farmland. He’d always call our grandmama and tell her to be sure and be standing on the front porch at such & such time and wave. He’d pass over very low and waggle his wings at the family . To the best of my recollection he never did that over Hanoi.

That is a solid five star meme!

Has anyone seen a picture of the “debris field”?

9.5

I understand they were a section (two jets). Normal procedure was the wingman has their transponder in Stby so ATC doesn’t get alerts that there are two planes too close together. If he was the wingman and had a problem, normal procedure is the aircraft in distress takes the lead and the (new) wingman handles navigation and comms while the lead deals with his issues without having to fly formation. Easy to believe in that case that the aircraft in distress was still in standby on the IFF and when they ejected and we ended up with a transponder-less stealthy airplane wandering around the countryside.

The Prowler, being the pre-Cambrian jet it was, didn’t squawk 7700 on ejection. You did have the location beacon in your seat pan that went off when the seat went up the rails and the lanyard that was attached to the cockpit floor pulled. Obviously we disconnected those in combat.

I’m curious what was so bad they ejected but the jet continued on. The only situation I can think of is a fire that went out but even then it was always “If fire indications positive - eject” as no one was leaving just because a fire light was on.