An American F-35 fighter fell to the ground during a U.S. Army exercise in Alaska. According to the Air Force, a device malfunctioned during the flight. Just before it crashed, the pilot was able to eject what the cameras captured. Losing a plane is simply a cost of respective twelve million dollars to the American military.
The incidental happened on Tuesday. at the Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska. As reported by Commander 354. Hunting Wings Paul Townsend, while exercising 1 of the pilots fighter F-35 During the flight, he reported a major accident.
The pilot tried to approach the landing machine. During the maneuver, he succeeded safely ejectJust before the device hit the ground.
NBC News indicated that Pilot condition is stable. He went to Bassett Army infirmary for research.
An American fighter accident. F-35 fell to the ground
The U.S. Air Force reported that the F-35 had succumbed “serious damage‘. The accident caught the cameras, and the video of the incidental leaked to the network. You can see on it how the device rotates around its own axis respective times and then with momentum hits the ground. Later from the scene began to emergence thick smoke and flames.
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At a press conference, Colonel Paul Townsend assured that the military was conducting a "detailed investigation in the hope of minimising the hazard of specified events in the future".
F-35 malfunction. Million failure to the U.S. Army
54 F-35 fighters went to Eielson base in 2016. Then the expansion of the base, costing Over half a billion dollars.
Buying 1 device alone is the cost of a row $81 million (nearly PLN 326 million – ed.) Fighters are manufactured by Lockheed Martin, which has repeatedly been criticized for the very advanced price of these machines.
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