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A pilot ejected from a Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II fighter jet throughout a failed touchdown at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth Thursday morning.
“We are aware of the F-35B crash on the shared runway at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth and understand that the pilot ejected successfully,” Lockheed Martin mentioned in a press release. “Safety is our priority, and we will follow appropriate investigation protocol.”
Lockheed Martin assembles the fighter jet at a facility that shares the north-south 18/36 runway with the joint reserve base. Lockheed confirmed the crash and that the pilot ejected early Thursday afternoon, however supplied no additional replace on the pilot’s situation.
White Settlement Chief of Police Christoper Cook mentioned they have been referred to as at 10:15 a.m. by U.S. Navy Police and Lockheed Martin to assist clear onlookers away from a highway working adjoining to a runway the place officers have been responding to and investigating an incident with an plane.
According to Cook, the pilot of a Lockheed-owned jet ejected and the pilot’s seat and parachute have been seen close to the plane. The jet got here to a cease within the grass alongside the southwest aspect of the runway, close to White Settlement Road and Spur 341/Lockheed Boulevard.
NBC 5 News
The B variant of the aircraft can land like a helicopter. Video obtained by NBC 5 from Kitt Wilder confirmed the plane touchdown vertically Thursday morning when it bounced off the runway. As it got here again down, the tail finish pitched up, driving the nostril into the bottom and snapping off the entrance touchdown gear. The plane then slid 180 levels on its nostril and proper wing earlier than turning again 45 levels within the different route. At that second, with the plane on the bottom, the pilot was ejected from the plane and the aircraft appeared to maneuver ahead just a few ft earlier than coming to relaxation within the grass.
Further particulars in regards to the incident haven’t been confirmed by Lockheed Martin or officers at NAS JRB.
SECOND INCIDENT IN AS MANY YEARS
This is the second aircraft to come back down close to the bottom in as a few years. In September 2021, a Navy T-45C Goshawk jet trainer out of Corpus Christi crashed in Lake Worth. Both pilots ejected and survived the crash, although they have been injured.
Earlier this year, a cockpit video of the September 2021 crash was released.
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