by Germania Rodriguez Poleo at Daily Mail
- Joint Base Charleston said on Monday that it had finally located the crashed F-35
- The pilot has not been identified by the Marine Corps
- He did not have serious injuries and has been discharged from the hospital
The pilot of the $100M F-35 that vanished for over a day parachuted into a South Carolina back yard after a malfunction forced him to eject from the aircraft, causing the plane to crash into a wooded area about 60 miles away, it has been revealed.
The pilot, who had departed from Joint Base Charleston on a training mission, ‘experienced a malfunction and was forced to eject’ on Sunday at an altitude of about 1,000 feet just a mile north of Charleston International Airport, according to the Marine Corps.
‘He’s unsure of where his plane crashed, said he just lost it in the weather,’ someone can be heard saying of the pilot on audio from a Charleston County Emergency Medical Services call shared Tuesday by a local meteorologist.
The pilot, who has not been identified by the Marine Corps, did not have serious injuries and has been discharged from the hospital. His plane was flying in tandem with another jet, which returned to base after the mishap rather than following the pilot-less aircraft.
The aircraft was not found until the next day,…
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