In the United States have written off the first new fifth-generation fighter F-35B, owned by the US Marine Corps. According to the command, car restoration would be too expensive. We are talking about a plane, was damaged by fire in October 2016 of the year.
Recall, what 27 October 2016 , the fighter F-35B short takeoff and vertical landing, created especially for the US Marine Corps, It caught fire during a training flight at an air base in North Carolina Beaufort. The pilot managed to land the plane, injured during the incident was, but the damage to the aircraft valued at more than two million dollars. The cause of the fire found fairly quickly. After the investigation was able to establish, that the cause of the fire was an ordinary clamp, standing literally pennies. For some reason, it burst and wires held together by frayed they just about passing near hydraulic line, which led to a fire in the weapons bay fighter. In this way “kopeck piece” It brought damage to a couple of million dollars.
Command Marine Corps has decided not to recover the aircraft in mind the high cost of, but at the moment he does not know, what to do next. According to some sources it will leave on the basis of a simulator, other – sent to scrap.
F-35B Lightning II - one of the three modifications newest fighter-bomber F-35, designed specifically for the US Marine Corps. The key feature of F-35B - an opportunity to take off with a short takeoff and vertical landing, that allows the use of these aircraft in the helicopter carrier and amphibious assault ships, equipped with a flight deck.
earlier it was reported, that the incident with the fighter F-35B, what happened in 2016 year, far from being a single. According to the US Air Force report, at different times in the aircraft of this type have been identified 57 defects, which can lead to an emergency situation. It is currently considered, that version of the F-35B for the USMC has not finalized until the end and in the process of correcting defects can still jump in the price.
