Military officials can't seem to locate a F-35B stealth aircraft after its pilot was forced to eject during a training exercise on Sunday.
, Joint Base Charleston spokesperson Jeremy Huggins explained the jet’s transponder, usually employed to find aircraft in such situations, has malfunctioned “for some reason that we haven’t yet determined… that’s why we put out the public request for help.”Although it is certainly possible one of the military’s most expensive and high tech jets has crashed, Huggins confirmed to
that the pilot left their plane in autopilot mode before ejecting—meaning it could actually still be airborne.
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