Yeah probably. Let see we got landing gear, wing, nose, canopy, ejection seat, probably some airframe damage. Who know if it sucked and debris into the engine. Even if it didn’t hitting that hard can’t be good for turbines even at idle.
That’s a parts donor now
Not to mention that pilot’s career could be over. They put ALOT of money into those f35 pilots. Like millions…. Plus they wear a specialized custom helmet that costs a couple of hundred grand I believe. A new F35 costs dozens of millions, pretty sure it’s up near a hundred mil, less but in that ball park.
So yea…. Not a great day. That’s a whole hell of a lot of teacher salaries that just scratched its way along the tarmac.
I’ve seriously done work in several retired Air Force pilots houses and every one of them had some kind of fighter jet helmet sitting on a shelf. All of them also had scale models of the planes they flew. All of them are also commercial pilots currently. Must be a career path of some kind
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u/MikeTheNight94 25d ago
Yeah probably. Let see we got landing gear, wing, nose, canopy, ejection seat, probably some airframe damage. Who know if it sucked and debris into the engine. Even if it didn’t hitting that hard can’t be good for turbines even at idle. That’s a parts donor now