INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: The US military pilot whose F-35 jet went temporarily missing on Sunday is heard repeatedly asking for an ambulance in a bizarre
911 call, according to an audio tape provided to The Associated Press on Thursday.In the four-minute recording, one can hear a North
Charleston resident calmly explaining that a pilot just parachuted into his backyard, along with the pilot who is unsure of what happened to
It would have crash landed somewhere
Only his back hurt, he added, after falling from an estimated height of 2000 feet.Further into the call, he made a request for medical
So I just rode a parachute down to the ground
aircraft in a zombie mode.The pilot parachuted down in a residential backyard near Charleston International Airport.An unidentified official
attempted to explain that they had "a pilot with his parachute" but no information about what had happened to his plane or word of a crash,
in a separate eight-minute dispatch call made public on Thursday to the AP
that "sounded like a tornado, possibly a plane," approximately 25 minutes earlier.Unclear why the jet kept flying, the Marine Corps
explained that it is designed to shield pilots from danger, claiming that the flight control software would have kept it stable in the
If it was in an established climb or descent, the jet will maintain a 1G state in that climb or descent until commanded to do something
added.Responding to why the plane wasn't tracked, the Corps said, "Normally, aircraft are tracked via radar and transponder codes
impeded further by thunderstorms and low cloud levels, the Corps said that the feature that kept the plane in the air might have also saved
the lives of people on the ground in addition to the pilot.The incident is under investigation, reported AP.
