Pilot Ejects From Fighter Jet at Military Base In Texas - NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

A aviator ejected from a Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II combatant pitchy during a failed landing astatine the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth Thursday morning.

"We are alert of the F-35B clang connected the shared runway astatine Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base successful Fort Worth and recognize that the aviator ejected successfully," Lockheed Martin said successful a statement. "Safety is our priority, and we volition travel due probe protocol."

Lockheed Martin assembles the combatant pitchy astatine a installation that shares the north-south 18/36 runway with the associated reserve base. Lockheed confirmed the clang and that the aviator ejected aboriginal Thursday afternoon, but offered nary further update connected the pilot's condition.

White Settlement Chief of Police Christoper Cook said they were called astatine 10:15 a.m. by U.S. Navy Police and Lockheed Martin to assistance wide onlookers distant from a roadworthy moving adjacent to a runway wherever officials were responding to and investigating an incidental with an aircraft.

According to Cook, the aviator of a Lockheed-owned pitchy ejected and the pilot's spot and parachute were disposable adjacent the aircraft. The pitchy came to a halt successful the writer on the southwest broadside of the runway, adjacent White Settlement Road and Spur 341/Lockheed Boulevard.

The B variant of the aircraft tin onshore similar a helicopter. Video obtained by NBC 5 from Kitt Wilder showed the craft landing vertically Thursday greeting erstwhile it bounced disconnected the runway. As it came backmost down, the process extremity pitched up, driving the chemoreceptor into the crushed and snapping disconnected the beforehand landing gear. The craft past slid 180 degrees connected its chemoreceptor and close helping earlier turning backmost 45 degrees successful the different direction. At that moment, with the craft connected the ground, the aviator was ejected from the craft and the level appeared to determination guardant a fewer feet earlier coming to remainder successful the grass.

Further details astir the incidental person not been confirmed by Lockheed Martin oregon officials astatine NAS JRB.

SECOND INCIDENT IN AS MANY YEARS

This is the 2nd level to travel down adjacent the basal successful arsenic galore years. In September 2021, a Navy T-45C Goshawk pitchy trainer retired of Corpus Christi crashed successful Lake Worth. Both pilots ejected and survived the crash, though they were injured.

Earlier this year, a cockpit video of the September 2021 clang was released.