There has been a "mishap"

Well….I guess if they couldn’t track it on radar….thats a good thing?

For 80 Million dollars I'd want a "return to home" function.

It should have been squawking, commercial traffic and all. Aren’t they usually flown with some sort of external attachment as a redundancy stateside so radar can see them?

I have not located info about crash location?

What’s the pilot say? Does he speak Chinese?


Hell the Chinese probably have it halfway to Bidenjing by now.

From what I read - pilot ejected and is at the hospital. Wondering how the Chinese get a pilot into the F35 while still in the air.

I seriously doubt the Chinese have to steal one with a friend occupying the White House.

Where's Derek and his plan tracking app?

Better call the Border Patrol.

LOL

The Ghost of Ukraine got it …

800 Billion in Afghanistan..

50 Million Transgender Studies in Pakistan..

Where’s the F’ck’n Sweat ..

This is all Bullschit. Nothing is “lost”.

Next we will hear that a Nuclear Sub carrying live nuclear missiles has gone missing, asking fisherman and beach goers if they have seen it.

We’re on the approach here, and have a lot of AC come over low and slow every day, mostly C-17’s and commercial tube slugs. You get used to the sound and anything different gets your attention. Sometime yesterday, late afternoon or evening, something strange went over, maybe just a C-17 really, really low…I don’t know.

Putin took it.....

I wouldn't know schidt from apple butter on Eastern hunting, but from what I can glean here in the 'fire...Bubba Goodoboy got that aereoplane repurposed for a deerblind. Got the gunports spittin' feed corn and him a settin' in the bubble waitin' fer ol' mossyhorn to drop in. He ain't gonna be dialin' the Yew Ess Air Farce any time soon.

Wouldn't surprise me if has already been added to air and space exhibit on the grounds out behind the SC Cotton Museum in Bishopville.

Here is an interesting thought...is it legally salvage?

Well, it is a stealth fighter.

That’s right where all my families live and farm. That’s some serious swampland there.

Has anything ever been invented like a GPS or a cellular type of tracking they could attach to a vehicle to track it? Or maybe a box that pings a location? That would be awesome.

The govt can track my cellphone but they can't track an 80 million dollar military plane?
MY ASS!

The Biden regime sold it to our enemies.

I'm reminded of the F16 which crashed in the UP and took some time to find.

It flew over Utah and sucked in a drone.

Nobody knows how the cocaine got into the White House either. Just move along.

I wonder if there is a reward?

I went looking for this one but did not have any luck, you need a team or at least two to take on such an endeavor. Plus they did not have the hand held GPS like they have today, the next thing you know there is a search party looking for you instead of the plane.


https://simpleflying.com/1996-learjet-crash-three-year-search-story/

I understand that. I mean recovering it from the water.

I was in the USN and a LSE (yellow shirt) on the flight deck of a small carrier. Lost two birds while I was aboard. A H-46 and a Harrier. Both were on a barge and headed to Norfolk Va. in less than a week.

I was thinking maybe the pilot was an operative of Bidenjing. Not out of the realm of possibilities. But I hope not.

If that stick is a Patriot God bless him and pray for a speedy recovery. Those ejections are pretty violent. Especially for spinal compression.

All the Navy/Marine jets I’m familiar with have a transponder that automatically squawks an “emergency code” of 7700 if the pilot ejects…if the transponder is receiving electrical power and is in either “normal” or “standby” mode. ATC is normally relying on the IFF (transponder) for position, altitude, etc. If the transponder is off or in standby, ATC would have to rely on a skin paint with the radar. Good luck. Maybe a complete electrical failure?…..it will eventually be figured out.

That feature can be disabled by maintenance or just turning the transponder off for ops over a hostile area but I doubt that was the case. We did that years ago off of Libya on some missions.

Ya, this one is either under water or augered into the mud. Lawn darts... 🤣

This popped up an hour ago... the comments are trending in the "No I don't want to buy the bridge or any of your prime swamp land" direction.

Xiden awarded the contract for that feature to a woke chinese owned firm....

Lots of rumours on Twitter that it landed in Cuba

Expect new photos from Tikka soon.

No clue if it could refuel on auto pilot but if that is an option it might be in China by now.

So multiple tanker crews were involved in the scheme...
You can't make this schidt up. 🤣🤣🤣

I wonder what the range is on one of those things.

"complete electrical failure?" NAPA battery and bad ground cable (thanks, Hot Rod Lincoln)

Why did the pilot eject when the plane was in auto pilot?
They call it pilot mishap--whatever that is

Something doesn’t sound right. i got to call bullshit on pilot ejecting ant can’t find the plane. They could find my phone with a dead battery on the moon but can’t time that gazillion dollar plane.

My gut tells me no one ejected……….that plane be in Cuba!!!

Funny how many people don’t believe the media but are all over this.

I would surmise the plane had some issue or was telling the pilot it had an issue. One that guaranteed a fireball upon landing. Set autopilot for spot out to sea where the plane doesn't take out 3 schools and a church. Get a favorable attitude for ejection and punch out.

The weird thing is, you'd think it would squawk 7700 the whole way once ejection happens - alerting everything that might track it to do so or transponder etc but if it went into the Atlantic at speed - there might not be much to find/survive?

Is that it..................right there hooked to that big balloon.......................the one with the Chinese writing on it.............

https://choiceclips.whatfinger.com/...vanced-fighter-as-gen-milley-plays-dumb/

Woke Military Loses Our Most Advanced Fighter As Gen. Milley Plays Dumb

General Milley doesn't have to play dumb. He's the real deal.

General Milley doesn't have to play dumb. He's the real deal.

The Ghost of Kiev II - the story of a lost and lonely jet that flew across the world to liberate Ukraine in one bold, daring mission.

🤣🤣🤣
They find the location of where the battery died. There's no guarantee that the phone will be there. 😉

OK, help me with this. I understand the radar signature not showing anything, but the military has to track the plane somehow - transponder; something. Unless manually over-ridden or part of the failure, why is that not being picked up? If it did crash, there isn't a signal provided? How, was that turned off too? Are they really wanting us to think that these planes just show up in active military bases and land? No sign of any activity once they are out of sight and just show up" here we are". As has been stated, 2+2 isn't computing.

Emergency beacon goes with the pilot upon ejection, I believe.

Here's and article from "The Drive."

article

Enough with the games. If anyone actually believes that our chitbag gov doesnt know where that jet is, you are f ucking retarded at best. Thats really all that needs said here

Dang, that stealth is really working.

It is still flying?

By Pilar Briggs, Steven Ardary, Patrick Phillips and Emily Johnson
Published: Sep. 17, 2023 at 4:57 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace says it’s not clear whether an F-35 jet missing since what Joint Base Charleston called a “mishap” is still in the sky or has crashed.

Mace said she was briefed on the ongoing search for the jet by the U.S. Marine Corps, which Joint Base Charleston said began after a pilot safely ejected on Sunday.

“And guess what: They didn’t have any answers. They don’t know if the plane is in the air or under the water. They could not tell me the precise location of where the pilot ejected or where the pilot landed,” she said.

Mace, who represents the First Congressional District, said she asked for a separate briefing with people who would be able to provide answers, adding that she has received “a lot of phone calls” from local leaders who she says are “frustrated with the lack of transparency and the lack of information.”

“And we’re talking about an $80 million jet. How does it just disappear? And how does the Pentagon ask for the public’s help in finding it?” she said. “It’s just a huge embarrassment.”

The incident involved a Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort F-35B Lightning II jet from Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501 with the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, according to public affairs specialist Jeremy Huggins. Huggins says the pilot was safely ejected and taken to a hospital where they are in stable condition.

“But quite frankly, this is a local emergency. We don’t know where the plane is, we don’t know what direction it went, we don’t know what direction it was flying and we don’t know if it’s still in the air,” she said. “And so it is a public safety issue and the public deserves answers.”

The Republican said that if the plane is still in the air flying and ends up going down in a heavily populated area, lives would be at risk.

“Now if the plane was flying over the water and crashed in the water, then obviously not a public safety issue, but the problem is, the $80 million question is, where is it, and if the beacon or transponder device within an $80 million brand new jet doesn’t work, what else doesn’t work and how much money has been invested into this program to see a jet like this fail for whatever reason.”

They can track a Grandma with a mask on, that took a walk in the Capitol building, back to a trailer park 700 miles away 3 months later from a grainy security video, but can't find a jet even knowing the flight path?

THEY? So the pilot is a non binary person?

Take a look at my post from about four hours ago. That answers some of your questions. 😊

Stuckey, SC? According to some speculation based on data from search aircraft patterns.

1m ago

CBKNEWS

@CBKNEWS121

#BREAKING: Joint Base Charleston has confirmed to News 2 that a debris field has been located in the Williamsburg County area following the search for the missing F-35 aircraft. Follow @CBKNEWS121 FOR MORE UPDATES

Maybe?

F35 Found

Developed in the 90s.
Billary done sold that off as an extra offering when he was hosting the Chinkaneese in the Lincoln bedroom.

Don't they have a Look a Like?

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!

Found it!!

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.

Anybody else find it funny that it's the USMC variant?

LOL

Vertical take off and crashing?

Hopefully the ejection worked as intended and the pilot is okay.

I can tell you where my kids are right now. Why can't a 80 million dollar plane be found again?

Incompetent nimrods.

When they slam into rural areas at mach-[bleep] without a transponder, they turn into glitter and are harder to find. Tho they did find this one.

The AF lost an A-7D out of Myrtle Beach AFB back in the 70s. The pilot ejected and the plane went in a swampy area. A few pieces were around the impact area. The AF called the navy for divers to find it. The Navy chief took one look at where the plane was and told the AF "We can't dive in mud".

Still got 6 nukes missing too.

Did they ever find that f16 that disappeared in Colorado? Pilot and sll.

Did they ever find that f16 that disappeared in Colorado? Pilot and sll.