A US Air Force F-35 pilot spent 50 minutes on an airborne conference call with Lockheed Martin engineers trying to solve a problem with his fighter jet before he ejected and the plane plunged to the ground in Alaska earlier this year, an accident report released this week says.
It probably sat out in a storm or was cleaned or something without the tanks being properly closed or they had a leak and then didn’t do a full preflight. That’s my guess, small planes can get loads of water in their fuel tanks sitting outside and it’s something we have to check each time.
It probably sat out in a storm or was cleaned or something without the tanks being properly closed or they had a leak and then didn’t do a full preflight. That’s my guess, small planes can get loads of water in their fuel tanks sitting outside and it’s something we have to check each time.