{"id":49741,"date":"2022-12-15T22:42:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T21:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=49741"},"modified":"2023-12-15T00:08:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T23:08:56","slug":"the-impressive-crash-of-an-f-35b-lightning-ii-fighter-when-landing-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/15\/the-impressive-crash-of-an-f-35b-lightning-ii-fighter-when-landing-in-fort-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"The impressive crash of an F-35B Lightning II fighter when landing in Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Thursday, a Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II fighter suffered an accident when landing at the Fort Worth Naval Air Station in Texas.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/02\/the-recording-of-the-crash-of-a-marine-f-35-fighter-at-an-air-base-in-japan\/\">The recording of the crash of a Marine F-35 fighter at an air base in Japan<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/06\/the-military-purchases-that-spain-plans-mpa-mlrs-and-a-substitute-for-the-ef-18-and-harrier-ii\/\">The military purchases that Spain plans: MPA, MLRS and a substitute for the EF-18 and Harrier II<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>The plane, of the STOVL variant of that fifth-generation American fighter, <strong>descended vertically on the runway until it touched down<\/strong>. At that moment, the plane bounced and lost control, hitting the ground with its nose and <strong>breaking the front landing gear<\/strong>. The aircraft then began to roll on its nose and banked on its starboard wing. When the main landing gear fully touched down again, <strong>the pilot activated his ejection seat, parachuting down a few meters from the plane.<\/strong> The local channel FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth has published a video recorded by Kitt Wilder in the moment of the accident:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RAW VIDEO: F-35 crashes during test flight at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UdSVMgay0MI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this other WFAA video you can see <strong> the state of the plane after the accident:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pilot ejects ahead of plane crash near Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, police say\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rxCa9nE02JA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/branches\/marine_corps\/2022-12-15\/military-jet-crash-fort-worth-8432430.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stars ad Stripes<\/a> has reported that General Pat Ryder has reported that <strong>the aircraft had not yet been transferred by Lockheed Martin to the US Marine Corps<\/strong>. The accident is now under investigation to find out its cause.<\/p>\n<p>It so happens that only 13 days ago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/02\/the-recording-of-the-crash-of-a-marine-f-35-fighter-at-an-air-base-in-japan\/\">another F-35B, this one already in the hands of the Marines, suffered an accident in Okinawa<\/a> while being towed at the air base from Kadena. The nose landing gear collapsed and the aircraft ended up with its nose on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Main image: Kitt Wilder.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Thursday, a Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II fighter suffered an accident when landing at the Fort Worth Naval Air Station in Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11546],"tags":[18073,7070,7072,18074,4522,10431,673],"class_list":["post-49741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-military-aviation","tag-fort-worth","tag-lockheed-martin","tag-lockheed-martin-f-35-lightning-ii","tag-nas-jrb-fort-worth","tag-texas","tag-united-states","tag-us-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}