{"id":1242480,"date":"2022-01-26T09:36:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T14:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1242480"},"modified":"2022-01-26T09:37:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T14:37:14","slug":"u-s-navy-races-to-salvage-f-35c-stealth-fighter-lost-in-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-navy-races-to-salvage-f-35c-stealth-fighter-lost-in-south-china-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Navy Races to Salvage F-35C Stealth Fighter Lost in South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-navy-races-to-salvage-f-35c-stealth-fighter-lost-in-south-china-sea%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1242480&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The U.S. Navy was moving swiftly on Wednesday to begin full recovery operations of an F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter lost overboard after a \u201clanding mishap\u201d on the deck of USS <em>Carl Vinson<\/em> (CVN-70) in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>The advanced warplane, which is assigned to Carrier Air Wing 2, was conducting routine flight operations in the South China Sea when the mishap occurred on Monday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The plane\u2019s pilot \u201csafely ejected\u201d and is in stable condition, as Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/01\/25\/combat-jet-landing-mishap-aboard-uss-carl-vinson-leaves-seven-injured\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2018\/11\/19\/south-china-sea-rainbow-rain-xi-jinping-declares-victory\/\">claims<\/a> \u201chistoric rights\u201d to the South China Sea, asserting territorial control over \u201centire island groups\u201d and using those baselines to enforce its claimed exclusive maritime zones.<\/p>\n<p>In effect, China asserts the notion the area where the F-35C was lost as its own internal waters.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19630538\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-918371358.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19630538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-918371358-1024x603-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"583\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>This photo taken on February 14, 2018 shows sailors working next to F-18 Hornet fighter jets on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, as the carrier strike group goes on a routine deployment mission in the South China Sea. (AYEE MACARAIG\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI can confirm the aircraft impacted the flight deck during landing and subsequently fell to the water,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us-navy-working-recover-f-35-warplane-that-fell-into-south-china-sea-2022-01-26\/\"> said<\/a> Lieutenant Nicholas Lingo, spokesperson for the US Seventh Fleet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US Navy is making recovery operations arrangements for the F-35C aircraft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked about an unsourced media report suggesting there were fears that the multimillion-dollar plane could fall into the hands of China, Lingo replied, referring to the People\u2019s Republic of China:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot speculate on what the PRC\u2019s intentions are on this matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">China claimed air and naval units of its People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) \u201ctracked, monitored, and warned off\u201d the American ship. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0B2ejFGzxx\">https:\/\/t.co\/0B2ejFGzxx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1357830293810540552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Monday\u2019s F35 incident took place as two Carrier Strike Groups, led by the Carl Vinson and USS <em>Abraham Lincoln<\/em>, with more than 14,000 sailors and marines, were conducting exercises in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>The military says the drills were to demonstrate the \u201cU.S. Indo-Pacific Command Joint Force\u2019s ability to deliver a powerful maritime force.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Navy was moving swiftly on Wednesday to begin full recovery operations of an F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter lost overboard after a \u201clanding mishap\u201d on the deck &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}