Japan Coast Guard Issues Salvage Warning in South China Sea as Navy Prepares F-35C Recovery Operatio

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Japan Coast Guard Issues Salvage Warning in South China Sea as Navy Prepares F-35C Recovery Operations
By: Dzirhan Mahadzir and Sam LaGrone
January 31, 2022 5:40 PM • Updated: January 31, 2022 8:54 PM

An F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter following a crash on USS Carl Vinson CVN-70) on Jan. 24, 2022.

The Navy is preparing salvage operations for an F-35C Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter lost last week, U.S. 7th Fleet told USNI News on Monday.

“The U.S. Navy is making recovery operations arrangements for the F-35C aircraft involved in the crash aboard USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) in the South China Sea,” Cmdr. Hayley Sims told USNI News in a statement.

Though the service did not provide additional details, over the weekend the Japan Coast Guard issued a NAVAREA Navigational Warning on Saturday for salvage operations in the South China Sea.

The notice stated that salvage operations would be ongoing until further notice at the South China Sea coordinates west of the Philippines near where the fighter fell off the deck of USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) on Jan. 24. The loss of the aircraft occurred as Vinson and USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) were operating in tandem in the South China Sea.

https://news.usni.org/2022/01/31/japan-coast-guard-issues-salvage-warning-in-south-china-sea-as-navy-prepares-f-35c-recovery-operations

[rangerrebew]

Something isn't right about all this.  The plane in the water appears to be pretty much intact yet if you watch and listen to the video, the plane clearly hit something.  Maybe it hit something on the flight deck which got sucked into the intake and blew the engines.  I just think the military is hiding something.