A F-35B aircraft . ©Matthew Freeman/US Navy handout/Reuters
FOX News: Entire F-35 stealth fighter jet fleet grounded by military after crash in September
The U.S. military on Thursday grounded its entire fleet of F-35 stealth fighters after one of the jets crashed during a training mission in South Carolina last month, officials said Thursday.
The stand down affects more than 200 jets while an "inspection of a fuel tube" in F-35 engines takes place, according to a Pentagon spokesman.
“If suspect fuel tubes are installed, the part will be removed and replaced. If known good fuel tubes are already installed, then those aircraft will be returned to flight status. Inspections are expected to be completed within the next 24 to 48 hours,” Joe DellaVedova, a spokesman for the F-35 program, said in a statement to Fox News.
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4 comments:
This is why I advocated for two engine fighters.
Remember how the F35's Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS) was supposed to make it easy to identify, manage,and replace faulty parts? It would be a ground crew's dream. Why, ALIS was so good, it would handle these maintenance issues autonomously!
Instead, in the real world, ALIS frequently makes the F35 unflyable... without being able to do the one, solitary job it was supposedly designed for. Faulty parts? Don't expect ALIS to help you track them down.
Maybe, but you need to let the tech develop more. Hell, the first of anything kind of sucks.
MF, true enough but the thing is getting a few grey whiskers now.
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