Originally Posted by
Otterbox
Looks like they landed in rows of plowed fields which may be why they didn’t lower the gear.
Word is that a WTI Instructor in the F35. If so, bad trend- It was a WTI flying a non standard maneuver kicked off events for the mid air between the Hornet and the Herk in Japan that got the Herk crew killed.
Yeah makes you wonder, not particularly easy to get from the basket to the props in broad daylight. Maybe the join went horribly wrong.
LiveATC has RAIDER's MOA clearance, and then all the drama but I couldn't find a continuous playback of what happened in between or how much time elapsed.