A military pilot whose advanced fighter jet went temporarily missing last weekend is heard repeatedly requesting an ambulance in a 911 call.
A Marine Corps pilot safely ejected from a fighter jet over South Carolina, but the search is on for his aircraft, which might’ve crashed into a lake.The F-35 crashed Sunday after a malfunction prompted the pilot to eject over Charleston and land in the backyard not far from Charleston International Airport. The fighter jet, which the Marine Corps said was at an altitude of only about 1,000 feet, kept flying for 60 miles until it crashed in a rural area near Indiantown.
The Marines said that although it was unclear why the jet kept flying, flight control software would have worked to keep it steady if there were no longer a pilot’s hands on the controls. “If the jet is stable in level flight, the jet will attempt to stay there. If it was in an established climb or descent, the jet will maintain a 1G state in that climb or descent until commanded to do something else,” the Marine Corps said in a statement. “This is designed to save our pilots if they are incapacitated or lose situational awareness.”
Other questions about the crash remained too, notably why the plane wasn’t tracked as it continued flying over South Carolina and how it could take more than a day to find a massive fighter jet that had flown over populated, although rural, areas. The Marines said features that erase a jet’s secure communications in case of an ejection — a feature designed to protect both the pilot’s location and the plane’s classified systems — may also have complicated efforts to find it.
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