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  14.  @jbs8704  Rumors are that an intake cover was left in a place that allowed it to be sucked into or already obscured the airflow into the motor, so it couldn't generate sufficient power to take off. Flight ops resumed immediately after, as the deck crew apparently saw the engine cover floating on the water and pointed it out. Harrier first 10 years of service? 100 total airframe losses, 20 fatalities. Harrier to this day has the highest mishap rate of any fighter in service. F-35B has been flying since 2008. First loss was actually mechanical/assembly process failure crashed in 2018. The 2 other F-35B crashes were human error. 1 hit an aerial refueler, the other was the UK deck incident just described. F-35A has been flying since 2006. First crash was Japanese senior pilot, nosed down after a BFM sortie at high altitude, plunged into a long 60° dive into the ocean with no attempts to recover. He's the only F-35 fatality to-date, which is a phenomenal record. The other F-35A crash was an instructor pilot who left speed hold on, and bounced it off the runway at night at Eglin, smashing the gears into the wells, then ejected. So that's 6 crashes total for 3 different types. My bets were on an F-35B or F-35C crashing first, with much more frequent losses because I lived through development of the teens. First 10 years of F-16? 143 crashes, 71 fatalities F-35s are ridiculously safe compared to anything else out there. Over 750 have been delivered, with over 480,000 fleet flight hours.
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