Cause of the F-35 crash
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47%
Pilot error
3%
Electronic bug
50%
Hardware failure
0.1%
Sabotage
0.2%
Electronic warfare
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45688255
Cause determined by my understanding in reading FAA or DoD Reports after completed investigation. If no official report by Dec 25, 2024 or none of the five possible answers fits the resolved N/A
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@CraigDemel Link to the three parts of the report: https://www.hqmc.marines.mil/Agencies/USMC-FOIA/FRR/
This is the first real reporting on the South Carolina F-35 crash I’ve seen in almost a year of looking. Sounds like it has problems in lightning storms. If it were pilot error, instead of a systemic issue, they’d have said that by now.
The majority (~69.1%) of general aviation plane crashes are pilot-related according to https://pilotinstitute.com/aviation-accident-causes/
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