{"id":147461,"date":"2023-09-18T09:24:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T13:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=147461"},"modified":"2023-09-18T09:24:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T13:24:49","slug":"us-military-asks-for-help-to-find-missing-f-35-fighter-jet-after-mishap-sees-pilot-eject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=147461","title":{"rendered":"US military asks for help to find missing F-35 fighter jet after \u2018mishap\u2019 sees pilot eject."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/f-35.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-147462\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/f-35-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/f-35-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/f-35-500x301.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/f-35-768x462.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/f-35.jpg 1391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Search for F-35B Lightning II fighter jet focused on two lakes after Marine Corps pilot ejected over North Charleston for unknown reason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1kas69x\">US military officials have appealed to the public for help to find a fighter jet after losing track of it somewhere over\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/south-carolina\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">South Carolina<\/a>\u00a0when the pilot ejected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1kas69x\">A Marine Corps pilot safely escaped the F-35B Lightning II jet over North Charleston on Sunday afternoon after a \u201cmishap\u201d, military officials said, and the search for his missing aircraft was now focused on two lakes north of North Charleston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1kas69x\">The pilot parachuted safely into North Charleston at about 2pm and was taken to a local hospital, where he was in stable condition, said Maj Melanie Salinas. The pilot\u2019s name has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the missing plane\u2019s location and trajectory, the search for the F-35 Lightning II jet was focused on Lake Moultrie and Lake Marion, said Senior Master Sergeant Heather Stanton at Joint Base Charleston. Both lakes are north of North Charleston.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The pilot ejected almost directly over my house.\u00a0 Not exactly sure how this Jarhead is going to explain that he lost his F-35.\u00a0 \u00a0I checked my yard, shed, looked up on the roof.\u00a0 No sign of the missing plane so far.<\/p>\n<p>I am not ruling out the Former Soviet hiding it for ransom.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/sep\/18\/missing-f-35b-lighting-ii-fighter-jet-us-military-help-marine-corps-pilot-ejects\">US military asks for help to find missing F-35 fighter jet after \u2018mishap\u2019 sees pilot eject | US military | The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Search for F-35B Lightning II fighter jet focused on two lakes after Marine Corps pilot ejected &hellip; <a title=\"US military asks for help to find missing F-35 fighter jet after \u2018mishap\u2019 sees pilot eject.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=147461\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US military asks for help to find missing F-35 fighter jet after \u2018mishap\u2019 sees pilot eject.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":654,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}