F-35 a stealth airplane is lost

[blackhawknj]

I wonder if someone was pencil whipping the maintenance records ? One of the findings in the loss of the Bonhomme Richard-"Maintenance records were falsified."

[RED]

That is just a could-have or guess based on years of flying in super sonic fighters. When flying in stormy weather, you are bouncing around and the wingman is staying close so he does not lose sight of the lead plane. The probable reason the surviving plane that landed ( it could have been either the lead or wing) is very likely they lost contact.

Something bad happened. Not one of the hundreds of fighter jockeys or back seaters I flew with and lived with wanted to eject.

[Allen]

Something bad happened. Not one of the hundreds of fighter jockeys or back seaters I flew with and lived with wanted to eject.

I heard that because of the G-force exerted on the spine that a person can be 1" shorter after ejecting due to the compression of the vertebrae cartilage.

[Phloating Phlasher]

Yes, absolutely. Ejection was the last, most desperate act.
You were encouraged to "ride it down as far as possible & point in the least dangerous direction (assuming some attitude control)".

But not can be, but WILL be. (spinal disk compression) One thing they drummed into you was push back HARD into the seat & brace so its ONLY linear, which will expand again naturally over time If we ever had to eject it was a mandatory full board medical & 72 hours required sick leave.

If I got the call-signs right it was the wing-man that went in not the lead. swede 11 & swede 12, usually the flight lead is "flight 1" & wing-man would be "flight 2" Controller AWACS or whatever would be "flight 0" or "flight actual".