We're close to becoming home to a squadron of F35 Air Force jets here in Montgomery, so anything happening involved those fighters is of note to us...including the recovery of a crashed U.S. Navy version of the jet from 12,400 feet underwater:
"The F-35C Joint Strike Fighter that encountered a “landing mishap” aboard the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson was salvaged Wednesday from the South China Sea.
The U.S. 7th Fleet’s Task Force 75 and Naval Sea Systems Command’s Supervisor of Salvage and Diving pulled the jet up from a depth of approximately 12,400 feet, according to the 7th Fleet. The teams used a CURV-21 — a 6,400-pound, remotely operated deep ocean salvage vehicle — to heave the aircraft onto the diving support construction vessel Picasso."
(Full article from Defense News HERE.
Now they'll try to figure out what went wrong, and the Alabama Air National Guard will be interested in what they discover.
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