And the British Navy announced last November that the F-35 plane had crashed in the Mediterranean, while the pilot managed to survive during the crash of the fighter.
And the British newspaper, “Daily Mail”, reported that one of the sailors of the aircraft carrier was arrested after a video clip appeared on social media showing the crash of the F-35 fighter.
The short clips show that the fighter was traveling on the runway of the aircraft carrier before descending into the waters of the Mediterranean, at the tip of the warship, which means that it never flew as was previously believed.
According to the investigations, the sailor, whose identity was not revealed, carried his smartphone and filmed the screen of the surveillance camera installed on the control tower of the aircraft carrier, which documented the incident.
After the sailor was arrested, he was removed from the warship and arrested in connection with the case, which angered the military leaders.
The military authorities considered what happened a “security breach”, which appears to be the second mistake that accompanied the crash of the world’s most expensive plane, costing more than $130 million.
Investigators believe that the crash was caused by the failure to remove the cheap rain covers properly from the plane.
They say that the stealth plane’s engine pulled the rain cover during takeoff from the aircraft carrier “Queen Elizabeth”, which led to the engine failure, forcing the pilot shortly after takeoff to jump out of his plane.
The British forces recovered the wreckage of the destroyed plane, which cost more than 130 million dollars, after 7 days of continuous operations with Italian and American forces.
These forces were in a frantic race to reach the wreckage of the most advanced plane in the world, so that the Russian forces would not reach them, so that they could learn its secrets.
The British newspaper “The Times” quoted a military source as saying that there was no longer any danger in the case of the crashed plane, and he did not reveal where the wreckage was found.
The wreckage will be transported to a nearby base in the Mediterranean, without revealing the source due to the sensitivity of the matter, only saying that it is in the territory of an “ally” country.
It was more than 1.5 kilometers below sea level.
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