NAS Lemoore F-35 fighter jet crash under investigation, experts weigh in

LEMOORE, Calif. (KFSN) -- A aviator is harmless aft a Navy F-35C combatant pitchy crashed conscionable a mates of miles from the runway astatine Naval Air Station Lemoore.

The pitchy was portion of VFA-125 "Rough Raiders," a squadron that trains work members connected aircraft.

The Navy said they wouldn't beryllium doing interviews astatine this clip but said the aviator was capable to self-eject to safety.

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"It's beauteous evident to maine that the aviator present was faced with thing that was a catastrophic concern successful presumption of power of the airplane, and that's wherefore helium had to get retired erstwhile helium did. It's thing that's a precise hard judgement call, and we've mislaid galore pilots implicit the decades to radical waiting excessively agelong to eject," explains ABC News Aviation Analyst John Nance.

Experts accidental U.S. subject pilots are immoderate of the astir skilled successful the satellite but adjacent successful that group, incidents similar this tin happen.

In 2011, 2 Lemoore Naval officers were killed successful a pitchy clang during a grooming mishap not acold from the basal and adjacent to wherever Wednesday's clang happened.

ABC News Aviation Analyst John Nance is simply a retired Air Force aviator helium says subject aviators bid for a twelvemonth earlier they get their wings past they bid an further 6 to 9 months connected the craft they're assigned to fly.

"The F-35 is an highly blase airplane, and the pilots are highly sophisticated, too. They lucifer that with the training, either the Air Force, the Navy, the Marines, these guys and gals perfectly cognize what they're doing, and they cognize however to eject safely if thing goes wholly wrong," says Nance.

It's the newest combatant successful the U.S. fleet, packed with stealth technology, and tin alert faster than the velocity of sound.

This peculiar mentation was designed for operations from craft carriers.

But that precocious tech doesn't travel inexpensive arsenic each pitchy carries an estimated $100 cardinal terms tag.

"A pitchy craft from scratch could easy outgo implicit a cardinal dollars successful probe and development," mentions Kevin O'Leary, who has a Ph.D. successful Aviation Operations and is the President of Jet Advisors.

"So you don't privation thing little than the implicit best, and that's precisely what I deliberation we've got successful the 35. It whitethorn beryllium the past antheral combatant due to the fact that we are going truthful overmuch into automation," explains John Nance.

Experts accidental the probe volition beryllium extended and it volition instrumentality astatine slightest a month, if not up to a year.

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