Quote from: VVet69 on September 22, 2023, 03:45:33 AMAnother news article, including the 911 calls after the pilot parachuted out of the aircraft. Maybe weather related?

From the article:

"We had a military jet crash. I'm the pilot," the unidentified 47-year-old Marine Corps pilot explained. "We need to get rescue rolling. I'm not sure where the airplane is. It would have crash-landed somewhere. I ejected."

The bizarre exchange occurred during a 4-minute phone call that followed the pilot's parachute landing into the yard of a South Kenwood Drive home shortly after 1:30 p.m. Sept. 17. He had been flying a F-35B Lighting II until he ejected from his jet during a powerful storm near Charleston International Airport. It would take more than a day for the $90 million jet to be found — some 60 miles away, smashed to pieces in a wooded area in rural Williamsburg County.

This creates even more questions than before.
Where was his emergency radio? Makes one wonder just how incompetent the entire program is.
Now we have the DOD blaming the manufacturer, Lockheed?

Only 55 percent of F-35s mission capable, putting depot work in spotlight: GAO

Just 55% of the Pentagon's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter fleet was mission capable as of March 2023, a disappointing statistic driven by factors like a lack of depot capacity, insufficient supply of spare parts and overreliance on contractors, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.

This sounds like a "Right To Repair" issue. As follows...

The watchdog's assessment — published days after a Marine Corps F-35B went missing for over 24 hours in South Carolina — highlights a complaint frequently aired by government officials: prime contractor Lockheed Martin, along with its countless subcontractors, were given too much control over sustaining the stealth fighter, a situation officials told GAO is untenable for the program's future.The DoD also lacks access to certain technical data, which hinders the work of some maintainers and risks delays for depot activities as negotiations over data rights drags on. The problem of data access affects both hardware and software sustainment, GAO found.

https://breakingdefense.com/2023/09/only-55-percent-of-f-35s-mission-capable-putting-depot-work-in-spotlight-gao/

The top of our military has too many important issues, like counting how many genders there are, to be bothered with a silly little plane.         

Quote from: Possum on September 22, 2023, 12:51:31 PMThe top of our military has too many important issues, like counting how many genders there are, to be bothered with a silly little plane.         

But they mastered CYA and blaming everyone for their own incompetence.

Quote from: Solar on September 22, 2023, 05:22:38 AMI think that's exactly why we're not being told the whole story.
It appears the military suspected in as much as well, and why all the BS surrounding this story.
This is literally a carbon copy of the Naval incidents a few years back when they were losing control of ships..

Thats the consequences of allowing Chinese spy balloons float across the USA instead of blasting them out of the sky

Quote from: Billy's bayonet on September 22, 2023, 06:38:50 PMThats the consequences of allowing Chinese spy balloons float across the USA instead of blasting them out of the sky

EXCELLENT POINT!
How many CCP balloons were in the air when the Navy was having sooo many issues with navigation?
Which begs the question. How many are over head at this very moment?

Our Govt sucks!!!