The Marines Need Help Finding a Lost Stealth Fighter and Nobody Can Stop Laughing
Those F-35 stealth fighters must be even closer to invisible than I thought because the Marines lost one on Sunday and nobody can find it.
A Marine piloting the special vertical takeoff and landing version, the F-35B, suffered some kind of “mishap” and was forced to eject over South Carolina. He ejected safely. He’s fine. We can go on and laugh. The plane, however, was nowhere to be found. Weighing in at over 32,000 pounds even when it isn’t filled with jet fuel, you’d think the missing jet would be easy to find, but no.
So whoever runs the social media for Joint Base Charleston took to Twitter to ask for help finding the super-invisible stealth fighter.
This, of course, is when Twitter lept into action as only Twitter can.
Have you tried walking through the parking lot pressing the remote over and over?
Others know an easy buck when they see one.
“When you ask Twitter if anyone has seen your missing fighter jet, are you expecting anything other than snarky answers?”
Maybe somewhere on Twitter, there’s one really earnest guy, walking around his backyard, looking for an F-35, just in case.
He gave it his best shot. Even looked in the shed, just in case. But then he had to tweet back to @TeamCharleston, “Sorry, no. What color was it?”
Since the jet was left on Autopilot it could have traveled an enormous distance before it ran out of fuel.
Wait a minute! I’ll check the back yard…
On the North River 
“Forced” to eject? How far has it flown since?
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The crash site has since been found.
It gave me a start when I saw “Doug” commenting. My old friend Doug who used to contribute to this blog passed away last winter. I’ve missed seeing his name here since.
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Pity they found the crash site so fast, the Web could have milked this for memes for at least a week.
I was working on one with the pilot (Sleepy Joe Biden) ejecting from the doomed aircraft (The USA) continuing on to its crash landing. It would have been a pip!
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