Jul 12, 2017 · On Sept. 23, 2016, an F-35A assigned to the 61st Fighter Squadron and deployed to Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, caught fire on the flight line. The aircraft was damaged with an …

On 27 October 2016, a Marine Corp F-35B (tail number 168057) suffered an in-flight fire, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing at MCAS Beaufort, South Carolina. The cause of the …

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is an American family of single-seat, single-engine, supersonic stealth strike fighters. A multirole combat aircraft designed for both air superiority …

Jan 29, 2025 · The first significant incident with the F-35 was reported in 2014 when a US Air Force F-35 encountered a destructive engine fire caused by excessive rubbing of the fan …

Jan 29, 2025 · Extraordinary footage emerged from Alaska early Wednesday morning of a U.S. Air Force F-35 jet crashing during a training flight and explodes in a ball of fire. The pilot on …

Jun 5, 2015 · A fractured engine rotor caused an F-35 to catch fire during takeoff for a training mission last summer, according to an Air Force investigation released Friday.

Apr 3, 2020 · After eighteen years of troubled and controversial development, the Lockheed F-35 Lightning stealth fighter may soon enter mass production, many of its bugs having been …

Jul 7, 2014 · A June 23 fire that severely damaged a Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is “definitely” related to the aircraft’s Pratt & Whitney F135 after …

Sep 8, 2014 · The long-delayed operational debut for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is at risk of further slippage due to a safety-critical problem with its Pratt & Whitney …

Jul 14, 2017 · The Pratt & Whitney F135 engine of a U.S. Air Force F-35A caught on fire during start, severely damaging the aircraft, due to a tailwind, says the Air Force Incident …