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The US Navy’s fighter jets are hot property, packed with secrets of amazing stealth, destruction, and defence.

That’s why there’s always a sense of alarm when someone leaks a video of a plane crash happening while it’s trying to land on the motherships out at sea.

We spoke about the scramble to find the $100 million F35-C fighter jet that crashed in the South China Sea just over a week ago, with the US Navy trying to get to the sunken parts before China does in order to protect their military secrets.

Nw footage of that crash has been leaked on social media, possibly adding more information that enemy forces can use to track and analyse the F35-C fighter jet.

The video is a bit strange, not going to lie, adding to the whole keeping secrets thing.

On a static, sepia screen with some weird TV audio playing out from somewhere, it shows the F35-C crashing onto the USS Carl Vinson ship and being engulfed in flames before sliding into the South China Sea at around 4:30PM on January 24.

Members of the crew can be heard yelling “wave off, wave off” as the expensive plane approaches the ship.

Take a look:

Leaked video of the F-35C crash on Carl Vinson, a classic case of ramp strike by the most advanced fielded fighter jet pic.twitter.com/wVl5nLI1bN

— Fighterman_FFRC (@Fighterman_FFRC) February 6, 2022

Navy Times has confirmation of this:

Naval Air Forces officials confirmed “that there has been an unauthorized release of video footage from flight deck cameras” aboard Vinson.

“There is an ongoing investigation into both the crash and the unauthorized release of the shipboard video footage,” Cmdr. Zachary Harrell said in a statement.

You don’t really see it, but the pilot managed to eject from the plane before it skidded into the water.

The pilot, along with six sailors on board the ship at the time, was injured in this “mishap”, the fifth major aviation mishap to befall the carrier’s air wing in the past few months.

The scramble is still on as the US Navy has not salvaged the $100 million jet full of technology that China would love to get their hands on, or they just haven’t announced so yet.

Although maritime salvage warnings for a northern portion of the South China Sea have been issued in recent weeks and the sea service is expected to raise the fallen jet.

Someone also divulged footage of the F-35B warplane crashing into the Mediterranean Sea while operating on the British carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth in November.

But that jet was retrieved by the US navy.

[source:navytimes]