This should act as a follow-up to my last post, from
DID apparently there were
7 incidents prior to the fatal crash of Japans 13
F-35A fighters. One of the incidents did involve a U.S. built
F-35A as well. It is also reported the jet involved in the crash also had an issue prior to it. Japan has
grounded all their F-35A fighters UFN. It has been identified that
3 separate systems failures are involved with the 7 prior crash incidents.
This taken from this past Friday the 19th.
"Asia-Pacific
Japan’s first F-35A stealth fighter reportedly made
seven emergency landings in the months prior to crashing in the Pacific Ocean last week. The Japanese Air Force started using its fleet of 13 F35As in January. On April 9, the first plane of Mitsubishi assembly crashed. Of the 13 planes provided by the United States to Japan, five have been forced to make emergency landings in seven incidents. The plane that crashed made two of the emergency landings. Final assembly of four of the error reporting planes, including the fighter that went missing, was carried out in Japan by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. The other aircraft was built and assembled in the US. The crashed fighter reportedly had issues with its cooling and navigation systems twice. Japan grounded its fleet of 13 F-35As in the wake of the crash."
The next ref. was linked from DID were in bold above.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles...0m/0na/006000c
Also note
NAVAIR has not even declared
FOC or for that matter
IOC for these jets for either the
USN F-35C or the
USMC F-35B. The following two refs will show the "contrast" in how they list their jets starting with the
F-35 entry.
Never mind, apparently the site is still down since I was on it just before the crash. As they say "
Timing is everything."
For those that do Happy Easter!!
Regards,
Pat
