SandBoxx: What leaked footage tells us about the British F-35 crash
On November 17, a British-flagged F-35 Joint Strike Fighter crashed shortly after takeoff during routine flight operations from the British flag ship carrier, the HMS Queen Elizabeth. Now, leaked footage of the incident shows that the aircraft never even left the deck of the vessel before plummeting off the edge into the water below.
As you can see in the footage, the F-35 is approaching the ramp at end of the carrier’s flight deck when it seems to decelerate at the worst possible time. As it reaches the top of the ramp, it seems to have lost nearly all forward momentum, and the pilot ejects before the fighter tips nose-first into the Pacific.
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WNU Editor: It is clear (to me) that there was no power/forward momentum for the F-35.
You would think a pilot would be trained well enough not to stall trying to get it out of first.
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