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Here is the clip of the British F-35 failing take off and instead crashing into the sea: https://twitter.com/sebh1981/status/1465351592018956295 https://twitte

• mhh__ 5y ago
  Bad comment. Ignoring that it's a new aircraft on a new carrier, the only thing close to a hypothesis at the moment is that an operator fucked up which could happen with any aircraft.
• codeduck 5y ago
  to be fair this was not the fault of the F-35 but rather most likely due to a rain cover that was supposed to be removed before flight. So human error rather than mechanical.
  • throwaway4good 5y ago
    That was the story at one point.
• CraigJPerry 5y ago
  Was the root cause of that incident not that the ground crew and the pilot all missed a “remove before flight” cover in their pre-flight routines? I.e. it was multiple humans making an error in their trained & checklisted pre-flight duty, rather than a failure of the aircraft.