{"id":1880,"date":"2019-05-12T15:33:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T12:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2019-05-12T15:33:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T12:33:17","slug":"defective-fuel-tube-caused-september-usmc-f-35-crash-in-south-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=1880","title":{"rendered":"Defective fuel tube caused September USMC F-35 crash in South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A failed fuel tube caused the first crash of an F-35 jet in September of last year, U.S. government investigators said in a report issued this week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1881\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?attachment_id=1881\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1881\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1881\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1881\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019-May-11-USMC-F-35B-crashes-in-South-Carolina.jpg\" alt=\"USMC F-35B crashes in South Carolina\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019-May-11-USMC-F-35B-crashes-in-South-Carolina.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019-May-11-USMC-F-35B-crashes-in-South-Carolina-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1881\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke rises at the site of a U.S. Marine Corps Air F-35B fighter jet crash in Beaufort, South Carolina, U.S., September 28, 2018 in this still image obtained from social media. (Photo by Kensley M?ncey Crosby\/via Reuters)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>\u201cAn investigation determined a manufacturing defect caused an engine fuel tube to rupture during flight, resulting in a loss of power to the engine,\u201d<\/em> the Government Accountability Office said in a report issued this week.<\/p>\n<p>In September, a U.S. military F-35B crashed near the US Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort in South Carolina. The pilot ejected safely.<\/p>\n<p>The F-35B is the short takeoff and landing version of the jet flown by the U.S. Marines and a handful of allies.<\/p>\n<p>F-35 jets are made by Lockheed Martin Corp and have engines made by United Technologies Corp\u2019s Pratt &amp; Whitney division.<\/p>\n<p>A Pratt &amp; Whitney representative declined to comment. A military investigation into the September crash is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>After the September crash the Pentagon\u2019s office that runs the F-35 program said that some fuel tubes from Pratt &amp; Whitney would be replaced during regular maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>In April, a Japanese F-35A, the most common format for the fighter jet, crashed after being aloft for only 28 minutes. The plane had logged a total of 280 hours in the air.<\/p>\n<p>That was the second F-35 to crash since the aircraft\u2019s first flight in 2006.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> Washington (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-defense-f35\/defective-fuel-tube-caused-september-f-35-crash-in-south-carolina-report-idUSKCN1SH0G9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>) \u2013 Reporting by Mike Stone in Washington; Editing by Matthew Lewis | 11 May 2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?cat=1675\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Adams Barret<\/strong><\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.net\/news_country.asp?id=275\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA <strong>XairForces<\/strong><\/a> Editor)<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:aerospace.2023@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aerospace.2023@gmail.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/Facebook.com\/aerospace.2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook.com\/aerospace.2023<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/Twitter.com\/AerospacNetwork\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter.com\/AerospacNetwork<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A failed fuel tube caused the first crash of an F-35 jet in September of last year, U.S. government investigators said in a report issued this week. \u201cAn investigation determined a manufacturing defect caused&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1675,1670,36,19,1725,7,1657,1659,177,18],"tags":[2350,851,2351,1884,2349,2347,2348,2352,1409],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1882,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions\/1882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}