...not so much the airframes.
F-35B pilot ejected and was recovered, being treated for injuries, his plane crashed in desert near Salton Sea.
KC-130 ended up landing in a farm field near an airport, all 8 onboard survived.
Pictures of KC-130 show it's basically intact, but all propeller blades are missing from engines 3 and 4 (right wing), and at least one propeller blade is missing from engine 1 (outboard left wing). I wonder how many of those blades went AWOL as part of the mid-air, and how many from landing in the dirt? Yikes again.
Some news reports say the F-35B pilot and co-pilot ejected safely. All F-35 variants are single seaters, so unless it was R2D2, no copilot was involved on that airframe.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/30/military-jet-department-of-defense-california/
https://www.foxnews.com/us/military-jet-crashes-mid-air-collision-refueling
https://kesq.com/news/2020/09/29/mi...-aircraft-makes-emergency-landing-in-thermal/
F-35B pilot ejected and was recovered, being treated for injuries, his plane crashed in desert near Salton Sea.
KC-130 ended up landing in a farm field near an airport, all 8 onboard survived.
Pictures of KC-130 show it's basically intact, but all propeller blades are missing from engines 3 and 4 (right wing), and at least one propeller blade is missing from engine 1 (outboard left wing). I wonder how many of those blades went AWOL as part of the mid-air, and how many from landing in the dirt? Yikes again.
Some news reports say the F-35B pilot and co-pilot ejected safely. All F-35 variants are single seaters, so unless it was R2D2, no copilot was involved on that airframe.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/30/military-jet-department-of-defense-california/
https://www.foxnews.com/us/military-jet-crashes-mid-air-collision-refueling
https://kesq.com/news/2020/09/29/mi...-aircraft-makes-emergency-landing-in-thermal/
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