🚨#UPDATE: According to Doppler Radar data, at approximately 5:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, heavy thunderstorms were passing in the area at the time the announcement was made regarding the missing F-35.

🚨#BREAKING: The pilot ejected out of the $100 million F-35 jet that went missing due to "bad weather" according to the pilot
 📌#Williamsburg | #SC The pilot of a $100 million F-35 fighter jet ejected from the plane, stating that bad weather caused him to lose control. It seems he bailed out before activating the tracking system. A voice on a Charleston County Emergency Medical Services call reported that the pilot couldn't pinpoint where the plane crashed, attributing it to the weather. The pilot has since been discharged. Military officials haven't disclosed the exact reason for the quick exit, simply labeling it as a "malfunction.

F 35 is a 100 million dollar Department of Defense plane how can it not handle a thunder storm

Ok... but what altitude was the aircraft flying at?

Good question

Thunder struck?

So let me eject at whatever altitude into a storm and not stay in my jet traveling at X speed with X technology with X protection….

Heavy thunderstorms confirmed by Doppler Radar around the time of the F-35's disappearance. Nature's unpredictability meets technology. 🌩️🛩️

They weather was so bad he had to bail but it continued to fly for 60 miles

Raining cats and dogs and F-35s

So a $100million state of the art jet cannot be controlled in bad weather?

@haz_beard told you the weather was shit when it happened. Lol

My guess is you can outrun the storm but maybe the storm was going Mach 5 or something.

Nice, there was a thunderstorm at approximately 530 pm, but it was clear at approximately 200pm when the pilot ejected, does anyone else see the problem with this.

When we have thunderstorms here socal especially in the high desert areas are air base grounds everything until the severe weather pass includes thunderstorms. Ya pilot shouldn't have even been flying in the weather.

Oh heck. So is it true?

- Regular planes widthstand rain and thunderstorms. A $100M F-35? - If it can't handle rain, they remain grounded when the weather is "bad". - Military bases don't check for weather anymore? - What about the wingman, his plane didn't malfunction, it wasn't a F-35? Try again DOD!

Can't planes turn around and go the other direction?

ITs Crazy

If struck by lighting

Equity pilot?? Or technical malfunction? This is where a lot of the trillions of unaccounted for DOD money went. Lockead-Martin had cost overruns, unaccounted for expenses, unaccounted for parts, etc. The military industrial complex strikes again and nobody says a word

The most advanced fighter jet in the world had no weather radar? No access to ATC for any warnings and modification of flight route? Nothing the multi-million dollar trained pilot could do but eject, eh? Wait until civil aviation discovers you're just screwed if a storm pops.

The pilot didn't know how to fly in bad weather? Was he HB disguised as a Ukraine trainee? Just sayin'...

The other jet landed just fine

During pre-flight briefings, Military Aviators check radar and NODEMS. They would have known about weather ahead of time. And if they had pop-up showers, they would have been safely rerouted to another base by flight ops. Not buying it.

10% to the Biden crime family. That jet is in the hands of the CCP or Ukraine

Do they not check the weather before take off of any approaching storms ? Hail, Tornados, Rotating clouds, Wind Shears? I mean commercial aircraft do. For God sake this was a 80 million dollar military fighter jet!!! And they can’t do something that simple?

Fly above it. If f'ing SWA can do it, you can too!

Someone speculated via radar loops that he may have stumbled into a developing tornado, which of course didn’t end up materializing but rotated aloft.

No

Strange I wonder why he was he flying through heavy thunderstorms in the first place - surely he could have gone way above the bad weather ? 😏

I'm calling BS!!

*little boy "ahhh Bullshit. Bullshit. Aaahhh bullshit"

I watched video hikers captured and it was clear blue skies. So odd. Such lies all over.

So why was he discharged if this was the case. Why isn't he named? If it was weather it was weather.

Was it a F-35 that fired and missed a spy balloon, asking for a friend?