(Reuters) – A U.S. Air Force F-35 fighter jet crashed upon landing on Tuesday night at a base in Florida and the pilot was ejected safely, the military said.
“An F-35A Lightning II assigned to the 58th Fighter Sq crashed upon landing,” the Eglin Air Force Base said https://bit.ly/2AD9IUW on Twitter, adding that the crash site was secured.
The pilot was in stable condition and there was no loss of life or damage to civilians, it said.
F-35A Lightning II is a single-seat, single-engine fighter aircraft made by Lockheed Martin Corp. The accident comes days after a F-22 jet crashed near the base https://bit.ly/2Zke4e3.
(Reporting by Rama Venkat in Bengaluru; Editing by Robert Birsel)
