Originally Posted by
rickair7777
That area is woods and lakes IIRC, it might not have had to fly far to become very hard to find. I'd guess at least one Navy MDSU is packing up their dive gear for a road trip as we speak.
I think this was land-based ops, nothing to do with ships. It's the F-35B FRS, so might have been a student. F-35B is STOVL, not cat launched.
Nothing but flat ocean off the coast. Ejected with AP-on. Who knows how long it flew. I doubt it went down over land.