Fox 13 reports that an F-35 pilot was at the controls when a Utah ANG Apache crashed during an orientation flight.
Jan. 29—An F-35 fighter jet that experienced an in-flight malfunction crashed early Tuesday afternoon at Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks, according to the U.S. Air Force. The pilot ...
An Air Force pilot was forced to eject ... that were moved to Alaska. The first F-35s were positioned at Eielson in April 2020. Tuesday’s crash is the 11th F-35 accident since 2018 and comes ...
This is not the first recent crash of an F-35. One crashed in May while flying from Texas to Edwards Air Force Base in California. The pilot had refueled in New Mexico just before the crash.