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F-35: fifth generation aircraft crashes in USA

Accident occurred during a flight in South Carolina

For the first time F-35B fifth-generation planes were used last Thursday by Marines in a troop support operation in Afghanistan, on Friday an airplane of the same version crashed near the Beaufort Air Base in South Carolina. It isn't the first incident involving the F-35s, but unlike the previous in this case for the first time the aircraft crashed to the ground. The causes that led to the crash are...

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Beaufort, South Carolina, USA, 10/01/2018 10:20
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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