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Well, I’m not sure who to hang\u00a0 this on, the Marines or the Navy. Pretty interesting, though.<\/p>\n
A Marine Corps jet on loan to the Navy for its Top Gun school took a nosedive last month while in a hangar at Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada, the Corps told Military.com on Friday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That isn’t necessarily a big deal, one would think… but the devil is in the details.<\/p>\n
An image of the jet, an F-35C Lightning II, was posted on social media earlier this month showing it face-planted onto the concrete in a hangar. Military.com reached out to 3rd Marine Air Wing, or 3rd MAW, the unit that owns the roughly $100 million fifth-generation fighter jet, last week asking to confirm the incident.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for 3rd MAW, Capt. Stephanie Leguizamon, said that the nose gear of the F-35 “collapsed” following shutdown procedures on the flight line at the naval air station. The jet was parked when it collapsed on Jan. 26, she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
a PARKED jet?<\/p>\n
Pretty sure we all thought the bar had been set pretty high last year when the Marine F-35 wandered off on its own in South Carolina and flew, what,\u00a0 50 some miles before crashing. After all, it was already in the air and once they go up – well, you know the rest of THAT cliche.<\/p>\n
Should note that while being towed in Japan last year that an F-35 had a similar nose gear collapse (see above).\u00a0 Once is a funny accident. Twice? Someone oughta take notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"