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Incident in the USA: F-35 sat down on the airfield without the front landing gear

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American journalists report an incident with a fifth-generation fighter F-35A. The incident occurred the day before.


According to reports published in the American media and social networks, the pilot had to land a plane at Eglin airbase without a front landing gear. According to the latest data, the rack was torn off even during the takeoff of the aircraft. When the plane took off, an emergency discussion began on what the pilot should do. The pilot said that he would try to land a fighter without a front landing gear.

Incident in the USA: F-35 sat down on the airfield without the front landing gear


As a result, the plane at a very low speed began to decline and eventually moved on the runway "nose down". On the runway, the aircraft was already waiting for fire trucks.



The emergency plane belongs to the 58 th Fighter Squadron, whose command has already begun to clarify all the circumstances of this incident.

The media reported that the pilot of the F-35 was not injured during the emergency landing.

At the moment, a specially formed commission is monitoring the condition of the aircraft, trying to estimate how much it will cost to repair it.

Report of one of the TV channels:

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  1. The black
    The black 23 August 2018 16: 39
    +51
    Well done pilot, of course, what can I say ...
    1. Andrey K
      Andrey K 23 August 2018 16: 43
      +12
      ..Incident in the USA: F-35 sat on the airfield without a front landing gear ...

      As they say: a feat is, as a rule, a correction of someone’s mistake.
      Well done pilot, and a super plane to saw and saw.
      In words, Lockheed Martin released a panacea for everyone and everything, in fact - regular failures of systems and equipment.
      1. raw174
        raw174 23 August 2018 16: 47
        +16
        Consider and finish, not without it. Tea is not a lisoped, the machine is complicated ...
        1. kit88
          kit88 23 August 2018 17: 08
          +20
          No, well, the rack may not clean up after take-off, not exit when landing, the wheel may burst when landing. But what would the stand torn off on takeoff! Well, you have to try so hard. Here the spy sits deep in Lockheed Martin. Yes
          1. Shurik70
            Shurik70 23 August 2018 20: 13
            -4
            Is this exactly an American pilot? Something is not like.
            Maybe a foreigner who has accepted American citizenship?
          2. kit88
            kit88 23 August 2018 23: 44
            +1
            Listen, comrades. The American version of this incident says

            after an emergency in the air forced the F-35A fighter to return to the Eglin Air Force Base, the nose gear collapsed.
            After the plane was parked, the front landing gear collapsed.

            And there is somehow no photo coming on board with an unreleased front desk in the American version.
        2. Nikolai
          Nikolai 23 August 2018 17: 10
          +12
          the stand was torn off even during the take-off of the aircraft.
          How's that? belay How was it necessary to prepare the plane for departure? I don’t think that he was hooked on a curbstone and he (the ball broke apart) in the sense of a stand broke off .... surprised, so surprised ... I just really can’t imagine ... request
        3. Nikolai Grek
          Nikolai Grek 23 August 2018 21: 44
          +5
          Quote: raw174
          Take into account and finish,

          and this process will last forever !!! lol lol
          1. raw174
            raw174 24 August 2018 06: 12
            +1
            Quote: Nikolai the Greek
            and this process will last forever !!!

            There is no limit to perfection, in fact, the Americans are pioneers of high-tech weapons, no matter how proud we are of the achievements of our military industrial complex (mainly by right), the Yankees are ahead of us very much, including in aviation.
      2. NN52
        NN52 23 August 2018 17: 05
        +10
        Something kind of nonsense .... Maybe the front desk did not come out already at the approach?
        Well, how could it be torn off during take-off? Then the plane would have received heavy damage from the most torn stand (there is rather big weight, of this spare part) ...
        There have been cases of pneumatic (wheels) "coming off" in the takeoff process, but so that the entire rack ...
        Surely no one messed up this news?
        1. Nikolai
          Nikolai 23 August 2018 17: 15
          +8
          Quote: NN52
          Surely no one messed up this news?

          Himself in shock ... In the photo, the sash racks are open front no, in my take-off ...
          1. NN52
            NN52 23 August 2018 17: 52
            +4
            Nicholas

            Not sure if the photo is taking off ...
            The picture is not smeared (hence the speed is low), and the "corner" is small, rubbed ...
            But this is IMHO ....
            And what have they got there, every take-off is taken by photographers at the strip?
            1. LSA57
              LSA57 23 August 2018 18: 25
              +3
              Quote: NN52
              And what have they got there, every take-off is taken by photographers at the strip?

              in this case, the photographer could even advance to the strip
              1. t-4
                t-4 23 August 2018 22: 47
                0
                Quote: LSA57
                in this case, the photographer could even advance to the strip

                Sure! The photographer was informed in advance that he would advance to the runway and take off a plane taking off without a front desk! laughing
            2. Nikolai
              Nikolai 23 August 2018 18: 49
              +6
              Yes, it somehow leveled high ..., well, on the old sensations it was somehow at a glance ..., well, it’s like intuition ... feel There is no stand, if the pneumatic stand were, unless it came out, which is more likely, and the writers, one did not translate correctly, the other thought up his own ... request
              1. NN52
                NN52 23 August 2018 19: 18
                +3
                Nicholas

                Or maybe this is the end face passage?
                1. Nikolai
                  Nikolai 23 August 2018 19: 31
                  +7
                  Maybe they shot it on the aisle, like to look closer ... request Made the passage do ...
      3. mvg
        mvg 23 August 2018 17: 13
        -8
        regular failures of systems and equipment.

        No need to speculate .. Tens of thousands of airplane-hours of flight and 2-3 incidents on 200 +++ cars. The T-50, 10 aircraft, has already had several accidents and a fire ... There is something to compare ... There is a board that cannot be restored .. This is not counting the regular accidents with Su-35/30 combat vehicles in Syria and Russia.
        1. sabakina
          sabakina 23 August 2018 17: 35
          +9
          Do not tell me which side number to be restored?
          1. mvg
            mvg 23 August 2018 18: 25
            -2
            Again banned in Google? Even VO wrote about this in detail. The one that is 055. Going to use the carcass, for statics. At that time, the freshest board. You, like, a permanent correspondent member of VO, should have read about this ...
            Surge was with the T-50-2 .. and further down the list ..
        2. Sarmat Sanych
          Sarmat Sanych 23 August 2018 18: 11
          +4
          T-50 AT ALL except one spark in the engine there were no accidents, stop fantasizing. But the fu-35 already has a dozen or three incidents.
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          2. mvg
            mvg 23 August 2018 18: 32
            -9
            Do not make mistakes in the word "google", and it will show you a lot of T-50 accidents, a dash of "incidents" ..
          3. Stone
            Stone 23 August 2018 22: 31
            0
            F35-305 units. Presumably without fantasies. INCIDENT.
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        3. electrooleg
          electrooleg 23 August 2018 18: 14
          +5
          Quote: mvg
          The T-50, 10 aircraft, already several accidents and fire ...


          Not aircraft, but flight samples. We don’t have downs in the design bureaus and the defense ministry to rivet hundreds of unfinished ones.
          1. mvg
            mvg 23 August 2018 18: 29
            -2
            Of course there are no downs, they just fall behind by 20-25 years ... and so everything is fine ... But the fu-35 generally sucks .. how hundreds buy it, no one understands !!! Not that the Su-57, orders for it have been scheduled for 30 years ahead !! Both India and the Russian Defense Ministry itself need a VERY very much ... everyone is trading, buy 2 or 3 things.
            1. Sarmat Sanych
              Sarmat Sanych 23 August 2018 20: 56
              +7
              Well this is necessary, as soon as the next fu-35 gets into the jamb, as soon as the Omerikan guardian already grabs a heart, throws all the strengths to protect the "penguin" that has fallen into a puddle)))
      4. Real russian
        Real russian 23 August 2018 21: 25
        0
        Quote: Andrey K
        ..Incident in the USA: F-35 sat on the airfield without a front landing gear ...

        As they say: a feat is, as a rule, a correction of someone’s mistake.
        Well done pilot, and a super plane to saw and saw.
        In words, Lockheed Martin released a panacea for everyone and everything, in fact - regular failures of systems and equipment.
        - For all the time, NO ONE F-35 was lost, not a single pilot was killed. This is something unbelievably fantastic, nothing like this was in aviation.
        1. Sarmat Sanych
          Sarmat Sanych 24 August 2018 08: 57
          +3
          Who told you such nonsense, "a real Russian in a saucepan"laughing? Only officially there are already a couple of dozen incidents, after some of which "penguins" are already irrecoverable.
      5. Nikolai Grek
        Nikolai Grek 23 August 2018 21: 43
        +4
        Quote: Andrey K
        and a super plane saw and saw.

        they saw loot there ... not to the plane !!! wink Yes laughing laughing laughing
    2. LSA57
      LSA57 23 August 2018 16: 47
      +14
      Quote: Black
      Well done pilot, of course, what can I say ..

      but he could catapult with a clear conscience
      1. Jolly oldster sailor
        Jolly oldster sailor 23 August 2018 17: 01
        +3
        Quote: LSA57
        but he could catapult with a clear conscience

        Could, of course ... Then the plane could fall on the people somewhere ... Everywhere there are People ... We all walk under one God - well done flyer, not drifted, it will be reckoned to him at the Terrible Court ... I don't know if I could have done the same, or not? Thank God, until such a case presented itself to test myself for "lice" ... hi
        1. LSA57
          LSA57 23 August 2018 17: 11
          +10
          Quote: Jolly oldster sailor
          Then the plane could fall on the people ..

          the plane was controlled. could direct anywhere, and then catapult.
          I recall the case when our pilot catapulted, and the plane flew half of Europe smile
        2. sabakina
          sabakina 23 August 2018 17: 37
          +2
          Quote: Jolly oldster sailor
          Could, of course ... Then the plane could fall on the people somewhere ... Everywhere People are ...
          STA? THEY THERE ARE SHOWING FLY OVER YOUR WASHINGTON?
      2. NN52
        NN52 23 August 2018 17: 09
        +8
        Could of course catapulate, and conscience would have been clear ....
        Just not the fact that the back of the pilot would have been happy with this clear conscience ...
        And the reason for the refusal would probably be difficult to establish ...
        1. LSA57
          LSA57 23 August 2018 17: 40
          +3
          Quote: NN52
          And the reason for the refusal would probably be difficult to establish ...

          Yes, there is already a dilemma. or pilot’s life, or finding out the reasons request
          1. NN52
            NN52 23 August 2018 17: 47
            +9
            As far as I know, the Eglin base is like our Lipetsk center .... There are pros ....
            Plus testers ....
            1. LSA57
              LSA57 23 August 2018 18: 27
              +5
              Quote: NN52
              There are pros ....
              Plus testers ....

              therefore allowed landing
        2. Doliva63
          Doliva63 23 August 2018 19: 35
          +4
          Quote: NN52
          Could of course catapulate, and conscience would have been clear ....
          Just not the fact that the back of the pilot would have been happy with this clear conscience ...
          And the reason for the refusal would probably be difficult to establish ...

          At the expense of the back. In my memory, the third ejected - 3 from the "twin" and 2 from the combat. Then they flew for a long time.
          1. NN52
            NN52 23 August 2018 19: 44
            +3
            Valentine

            In my memory, there were several zinc (with a small amount ...), several with decompression in different variations, and some yes, they continued to fly ...
            1. Doliva63
              Doliva63 26 August 2018 20: 12
              +1
              Quote: NN52
              Valentine

              In my memory, there were several zinc (with a small amount ...), several with decompression in different variations, and some yes, they continued to fly ...

              NKTL, it seems, gives an idea and teaches, not? True, they say it was forbidden to use.
              1. NN52
                NN52 27 August 2018 16: 50
                +2
                Doliva63
                NCTL 39 was with me only in the cadet years. He gives an idea, there’s a slight overload (pirapatron, I don’t remember exactly what it gives out about 5-8 units (like a blow with a shovel, in one place).
                But these are ideal conditions on earth ..
                And then in the shelves there were always carried out trainings with pneumatic throwing (this is another simulator) and practicing the actions during ejection, it was supposed, under the leadership of the regiment chief regiment
                And in the air, everything is a little different and very fleeting .... Yes, and overload when leaving the cab 21 units ...
                Regarding the NKTL now, I do not know, it is necessary to clarify.
                1. Doliva63
                  Doliva63 27 August 2018 18: 53
                  +1
                  Quote: NN52
                  Doliva63
                  NCTL 39 was with me only in the cadet years. He gives an idea, there’s a slight overload (pirapatron, I don’t remember exactly what it gives out about 5-8 units (like a blow with a shovel, in one place).
                  But these are ideal conditions on earth ..
                  And then in the shelves there were always carried out trainings with pneumatic throwing (this is another simulator) and practicing the actions during ejection, it was supposed, under the leadership of the regiment chief regiment
                  And in the air, everything is a little different and very fleeting .... Yes, and overload when leaving the cab 21 units ...
                  Regarding the NKTL now, I do not know, it is necessary to clarify.

                  When the regiment received aircraft from K-36, the corresponding NKTL also came to us. Who were the first to experience it? That's right, PDS fighters! So I have 8 "catapults"). And the fact that the air is "a little different", I agree, of course. Although we listened to the broadcast, when the regiment commander and the deputy commander came out of the "spark" (both former athletes of DOSAAF, VVAUL ended as an external student at the same time - we had three of them - our head of the PDS), everything sounded very ordinary, like: commander, it looks like a surge, don't you think? .. Yes, Pasha, it seems. We leave ... I see, I went ... The surge was on takeoff at the RP. Flights, of course, repulsed. The pilots were collected by the commander's UAZ and a medical "pill". When the regiment commander climbed out of the UAZ, he writhed with laughter - he tried to tell how he landed on a small vegetable garden in which the grandmother was digging up potatoes. In general, from the outside it seemed that the ejection was not scary. Although, of course, orders to leave the aircraft came regularly and they did not always end like this. But that's what they are and orders to show errors during the bailout. However, why am I telling the pilot! laughing Nostalgia for youth, you know drinks
                  1. NN52
                    NN52 27 August 2018 21: 50
                    +2
                    Valentine
                    drinks good
                    But obyazalovka two jumps a year, we did not like this topic ....
    3. Sarmat Sanych
      Sarmat Sanych 23 August 2018 16: 48
      +5
      The problems with the chassis of the fu-35 are not the first time, as by the way with the fu-22, the last 3 months ago it broke off both front and rear when braking, driving belly tens of meters (the campaign was destroyed).
      1. Nikolai
        Nikolai 23 August 2018 17: 16
        +7
        It’s understandable at landing ... but on takeoff, this is a precedent in aviation ..., well, I admit the destruction of pneumatics, but in the picture without a rack ... maybe it still didn’t work out? request
    4. sabakina
      sabakina 23 August 2018 16: 49
      -3
      In July of the 41st you would be shot without trial for such words.
      1. sabakina
        sabakina 23 August 2018 17: 41
        +1
        Well, and who did not like my words? Or is it not their pilots flying around the Leningrad Region? Or it’s not their drones that are exploring the borders of Kursk. Belgorod, Voronezh regions? am
    5. XXXIII
      XXXIII 23 August 2018 20: 08
      +2
      Quote: Black
      Well done pilot, of course, what can I say ...

      Do not praise ahead of time, maybe the pilot and tore the rack ..... laughing
      1. nPuBaTuP
        nPuBaTuP 24 August 2018 01: 30
        0
        maybe the pilot and tore off the rack

        Rather filed before takeoff :)
  2. marlin1203
    marlin1203 23 August 2018 16: 40
    +4
    Do you have enough titanium in the racks? wink
    1. Faceless
      Faceless 23 August 2018 16: 42
      0
      And you can take it only in the Russian Federation)))
      1. ZVO
        ZVO 24 August 2018 09: 18
        0
        Quote: Faceless
        And you can take it only in the Russian Federation)))


        China is the first exporter of titanium products.
        If ours stops exporting, no one will notice this in the world.
        Really.
        Among the countries leaders in the export of titanium ore - Russia is not.

        so hammer your arrogant opinion about the role of Russia in "titan" - far and for a long time.
        There is no dependence on Russian titanium in the world.
        1. Sarmat Sanych
          Sarmat Sanych 24 August 2018 22: 41
          +1
          China is only slightly ahead of Russia in exporting titanium products, it’s another matter that they don’t do such large parts as our VSPMO-AVISMA and are unlikely to ever be able to, so Airbus, Boeing, Embraer and Bombardier are really seriously dependent on Russia.
  3. Vol4ara
    Vol4ara 23 August 2018 16: 41
    +1
    SchA will begin ....
    1. sabakina
      sabakina 23 August 2018 16: 52
      +3
      Are you talking about our Israeli comrades? wink
      1. Shahno
        Shahno 23 August 2018 16: 55
        0
        Yes, yes, this is "our cow" ...
        1. DEDPIHTO
          DEDPIHTO 23 August 2018 17: 31
          +17
          Probably still not a cow .. lol Looks like? -Also without a front pillar laughing
        2. sabakina
          sabakina 23 August 2018 17: 44
          +3
          Pavel, I would treat him with milk ... The last time he drank "from under a cow" in the senior class of a secondary school in the USSR ... wink
      2. Aaron Zawi
        Aaron Zawi 23 August 2018 16: 55
        +4
        Quote: sabakina
        Are you talking about our Israeli comrades? wink

        I already wrote and will break and will beat. And the more these cars are produced and the more they fly, the higher the chances of an accident.
        1. Jolly oldster sailor
          Jolly oldster sailor 23 August 2018 17: 12
          +2
          Yes, no one argues -will break and will beatThis is normal. Any piece of iron sooner or later has a bad habit of breaking, there is nothing eternal ... hi
        2. NN52
          NN52 23 August 2018 17: 42
          +3
          Aaron Zawi

          Do not you value the lives of pilots ....
          Even mine yours ...
          Strange ...
          1. voyaka uh
            voyaka uh 23 August 2018 22: 15
            -1
            What does the life of pilots have to do with it? Not a single F-35 pilot has yet been killed. On 310 flying aircraft.
            This is a world record for reliability in military aviation. Aron wrote about the statistically unavoidable crashes and flight accidents with such a large number of aircraft. And losses in wars.
            F-35 will be more than 1700 only in the arsenal of the Americans. From 2021 they will begin to replace the F-18 on aircraft carriers. And several hundred more will fly to 20 other countries.
            1. NN52
              NN52 23 August 2018 23: 01
              +4
              voyaka uh

              The pilot is inseparable from the aircraft. If you didn’t know ...
              310 airplanes flying with tons of restrictions?
              F 35 so far (but doubtfully) claims to be the most massive aircraft. So maybe look then how many pilots died all the time on F 16 (the most massive aircraft) and F 18 (about it I didn’t pull you by the tongue), and write to us here?
              And statistics (as you write with Aron, in aviation it is written in blood ...)
        3. sabakina
          sabakina 23 August 2018 17: 52
          +2
          Quote: Aaron Zawi
          I already wrote and will break and will beat. And the more these cars are produced and the more they fly, the higher the chances of an accident.
          Aaron, you wrote correctly and incorrectly at the same time. A tried and tested machine won't let you down. Not a landing gear exit? Yes, it happens, even on civilian aircraft. But the F-35 ... This is a miscarriage of the YAK-141, I think the Yakovlevites did not tell everything to Martin Lodhid ... I think someone threw diamond dust there ... wink
  4. Dormidont
    Dormidont 23 August 2018 16: 44
    -2
    Too bad I didn't crash
  5. 1 Navigator
    1 Navigator 23 August 2018 16: 45
    +3
    “The notorious prodigy. laughing
  6. Jerk
    Jerk 23 August 2018 16: 48
    -1
    It is necessary to glue the Teslamobile to the nose ... Only with what? Superglue is all spanked in China. But it will be reliable. And a clear breakthrough, "We carry the future!" (C)
    Couple a bit too much they have "flaws". This is not a prototype, this is a fucking batch production for export! And this shit will catch fire, because the plane at the start, sorry, IN FUEL, then the crutch on the way will lose. About the fact that they have been pushing the promised gun there for 10 years, we are generally silent.
    N-nu? And where do we have here the triumph of the pregnant over the wild barbarians? This is not your 5th generation, this is the FIFTH POINT, here it is just in the pose of a drinking horse, guzny up, and got upset ...
  7. sabakina
    sabakina 23 August 2018 16: 51
    +4
    According to recent reports, the rack was torn off even during the take-off of the aircraft.


    In general, in general, reports that in Japan the F-35 began to shoot at its own people (apparently, I downloaded the film "Wedding in a Robin" laughing ) I'm not surprised anymore.
  8. jaroff
    jaroff 23 August 2018 17: 10
    +3
    Pilot 5+!
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    1. sabakina
      sabakina 23 August 2018 17: 56
      0
      Ustin, what, forgot the story? am
  10. demo
    demo 23 August 2018 17: 36
    -1
    In the USSR, passenger aircraft were planted without racks on board a truck.
    But didn’t think of it?
    1. LSA57
      LSA57 23 August 2018 17: 42
      +4
      Quote: demo
      In the USSR, passenger aircraft were planted without racks on board a truck.
      But didn’t think of it?

      what kind of truck will speed exceed 100?
    2. Avis-bis
      Avis-bis 23 August 2018 17: 54
      +2
      Quote: demo
      In the USSR, passenger aircraft were planted without racks on board a truck.

      It was in a feature film.
    3. Real russian
      Real russian 23 August 2018 21: 29
      -1
      Quote: demo
      In the USSR, passenger aircraft were planted without racks on board a truck.
      But didn’t think of it?
      - there was a case, back in the USSR. There, the fuselage cracked at the Tu-154, and so the flight engineer cut through the air duct of the third engine, climbed out onto the fuselage and patched it. I have a friend himself drank with him, everything is true.
  11. Avis-bis
    Avis-bis 23 August 2018 17: 45
    +2
    Eventually the plane at extremely low speed began to decline and eventually

    Hmm ...
  12. Prisoner
    Prisoner 23 August 2018 17: 52
    +1
    The pilot is good, you can not say about the device.
  13. Dzafdet
    Dzafdet 23 August 2018 17: 54
    +3
    Quote: Nikolai Nikolayevich
    the stand was torn off even during the take-off of the aircraft.
    How's that? belay How was it necessary to prepare the plane for departure? I don’t think that he was hooked on a curbstone and he (the ball broke apart) in the sense of a stand broke off .... surprised, so surprised ... I just really can’t imagine ... request


    What are you surprised at? Messages about the appearance of rust on the body parts of the F-35 have recently been. Latent corrosion and dynamic loads. And here is the result ...
  14. APASUS
    APASUS 23 August 2018 18: 26
    +1
    When there is one helmet, it’s prohibitively expensive, and then there’s a whole rack, for another electronic aiming unit, is it again that the Pentagon hit $ 20 -25 million?
    1. NN52
      NN52 23 August 2018 19: 12
      +1
      On each side?
  15. XXXIII
    XXXIII 23 August 2018 19: 11
    +4
    Incident in the USA: F-35 sat down on the airfield without the front landing gear
    It’s not clear how the rack could be pulled out, it’s unclear to journalists that they probably threw the dizu to the rack, most likely the rack did not come out. If it would vomit, there would be serious damage, it would hardly fly away ....
  16. Jerk
    Jerk 23 August 2018 19: 16
    +1
    Quote: raw174
    Take into account and finish

    Yes, there is more than one year of 700 green yards to cut laughing Stakhanovites-sawers!
  17. nathanael
    nathanael 23 August 2018 19: 46
    0
    Well this is galloping lyam dog down the drain ... A well done flyer ... Respekt
  18. edasko
    edasko 23 August 2018 19: 55
    0
    Why are they toiling? He seems to have a fan, he would sit upright.
    1. nPuBaTuP
      nPuBaTuP 24 August 2018 01: 36
      +2
      This is a budget option .... without a fan;)