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Search and rescue teams found wreckage from a crashed Japanese F-35 stealth fighter in the Pacific Ocean close to northern Japan as efforts to find the missing pilot continues, authorities said on Wednesday.
“The aircraft, less than one-year-old, was the first F-35 to be assembled in Japan and was aloft for only 28 minutes on Tuesday before contact was lost.
“The plane had logged a total of 280 hours in the air since its first flight, he added.
It is only the second F-35 to crash in the two-decades it has been flying and could reignite concern about the F-35 having only one engine.
The incident came as Lockheed Martin, the F-35 manufacturer, competes for orders in Finland and Switzerland against the twin-engined Eurofighter Typhoon and Boeing F/A-18E/F jet.
“The advanced, single-seat jet was flying in good weather about 135 km east of the Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture at about 7:27 p.m. (1027 GMT) on Tuesday when it disappeared from radar.
“We recovered the wreckage and determined it was from the F-35,” a spokesman for the Air Self Defence Force (ASDF) said, adding that the pilot of the aircraft was still missing.
Eight ships and seven aircraft, including a U.S. Navy P-8 Orion maritime patrol plane, are taking part in search and rescue efforts.
Defence Minister Takeshi Iwaya told newsmen that the aircraft was at the front of a group of four planes out for training maneuvers when it sent an “aborting practice” signal and then disappeared from the radar.
“We’ll need to cooperate with the U.S. forces and I believe arrangements are being made for this,” Iwaya said, adding that the priority was on determining the cause of the accident.
A second ASDF official told Reuters that Japan has a total of 13 F-35s, including the one that crashed, which was the fifth delivered to the ASDF, but the first assembled by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan.
`Japan’s remaining 12 stealth jets are grounded for now.
“The previous four aircraft had been used for training in the United States before being brought to Japan,’’ the defense official said.
A representative for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said the company had no immediate comment.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd assembles the aircraft at a plant near Nagoya in central Japan.
The lost aircraft cost 14 billion yen (125.98 million dollars), several million dollars over one purchased directly from the U.S.
“The F-35’s pilot was a veteran flyer with 3,200 hours of flight time, but had spent only 60 hours in the F-35.
“The aircraft crashed in waters that reach a depth of around 1,500 meters, making recovery, particularly of the aircraft’s flight data recorder, difficult,’’ the official said. (Reuters/NAN)
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日本防卫省在海底发现早先坠毁的F-35A战机残骸
2019-05-28 22:19
日本防卫省表示，4月初在本州岛北海岸附近公海海域坠毁的航空自卫队F-35A战斗机的发动机与机翼残骸已被发现。
据俄罗斯卫星通讯社5月28日报道，日本防卫大臣岩屋易表示，F-35A的发动机与机翼残骸损毁严重，目前已被打捞上岸。“日本打算继续对海底展开彻底搜索，因为海底现在还分散着许多F-35A战机残骸碎片。”
据日本《产经新闻》此前报道，4月9日，日本航空自卫队一架F-35A战斗机坠毁，机上飞行员失踪。5月7日，失事F-35A的黑匣子部分零件被找到并打捞上岸，但损毁严重，且未找到储存飞行记录的部件。目前，该架F-35A的坠机原因尚不明确。返回搜狐，查看更多
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Japanese Defense Ministry found the wreckage of the previously crashed F-35A fighter jet on the seabed
2019-05-28 22:19
The Japanese Defense Ministry said that the engine and wing wreckage of the Air Self-Defense Force F-35A fighter jet that crashed in the high seas near the northern coast of Honshu Island in early April has been discovered.
According to a report by the Russian Satellite News Agency on May 28, the Japanese Defense Minister Iwaya said that the engine and wing wreckage of the F-35A was seriously damaged and has been salvaged. "Japan intends to continue its thorough search of the seabed, because the seabed is still scattered with many debris from the F-35A."
According to Japan’s Sankei Shimbun, it was reported that on April 9, a F-35A fighter jet of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force crashed and the pilot on board was missing. On May 7, part of the black box of the F-35A was found and salvaged, but the damage was severe and no parts were stored for the flight record. At present, the cause of the crash of the F-35A is not clear. Go back to Sohu and see more
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The U.S. Military Now Denies That Japan's Missing F-35A Has Been Found
Spokespersons say that search efforts continue despite a claim from the top U.S. Air Force officer in the Pacific that the wreck was located.
By Joseph TrevithickApril 30, 2019
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There has been some confusion over whether or not Japanese or American authorities have found the main wreckage a Japan Air Self Defense Force F-35A Joint Strike Fighter that crashed in the Pacific Ocean earlier this month. A senior U.S. military officer had told reporters that personnel had found the plane, only to get contradicted by multiple other U.S. military spokespersons.
U.S. Air Force General Charles Brown, head of Pacific Air Forces (PACAF), told reporters that the location of the stealthy fighter jet was known during a press briefing on Apr. 30, 2019, according to Nikkei Asian Review. The F-35A crashed on Apr. 9, 2019 off the coast of Japan. The exact cause of the accident remains unknown. 41-year-old Japan Air Self Defense Force (JASDF) Major Akinori Hosomi was at the control of the plane at the time and also remains missing.
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“The aircraft’s been located,” Brown said, Nikkei reported. “It’s now in the recovery aspect.”
However, Nikkei later updated its story to add a statement from U.S. Air Force Colonel John Hutcheson, a spokesperson for U.S. Forces Japan (USFJ), who said that this was incorrect. Hutcheson did not clarify whether General Brown had simply misspoken or had himself received inaccurate information ahead of the press briefing.
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US Air Force General Charles Brown, head of Pacific Air Forces, speaks at a ceremony at US Forces Japan headquarters at Yokota Air Base in Japan.
“The aircraft has not been located at the bottom of the sea,” Hutcheson told Nikkei. “The U.S. military is still working with the Japan Air Self-Defense Force to locate the wreckage.”
Aircraft and ships searching for the downed aircraft and Major Hosomi did find debris from the crash, including a piece of the F-35’s tail, in the days following the mishap. There have been no reports yet that Japanese or American personnel, or anyone else, have recovered more significant portions of the plane.
“The Japanese Self Defense Force F-35A that crashed on April 9 has not yet been located or recovered,” an unspecified Air Force spokesperson subsequently said in a statement, according to Business Insider. “Japanese officials confirmed that some debris from the aircraft was found in early April, shortly after the accident. The U.S. continues to support JSDF-led search and recovery efforts.”
The search effort has moved into something of a new phase, which may be what General Brown was referring to. On Apr. 24, 2019, the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet announced that it had dispatched a salvage team on board a chartered ship, Ultra Deep Solutions' DSCV Van Gogh, to assist in finding the F-35A.
Ultra Deep Solutions
The DSCV Van Gogh.
The Naval salvage unit is bringing a commercial deep-sea submersible, additional unmanned underwater vehicles, and a TPL-25 “towed pinger locator,” with them. The ship will be able to pull the TPL-25 behind it to try and detect emergency signals coming from the wreck. We don't know what the exact functionality or concept of operations for the F-35's flight recorder, or "black box," might be and what kind of emergency locator system it, or the aircraft itself, might have. After spotting a particular signal, the Van Gogh would be able to deploy the manned submersible and drones to more closely investigate any potential crash sites.
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A TPL-25.
The Japan Maritime Self Defense Force’s (JMSDF) JS Chiyoda submarine rescue ship has already been part of the search and rescue efforts. It is equipped with a Deep Sea Rescue Vehicle (DSRV) and could carry additional remotely operated vehicles, all of which could help in finding the wreckage.
Last week, the Kaimei, a deep-sea research vessel from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, also joined the search for the downed F-35A. It has its own deep-sea remotely operated vehicle, as well as echo-sounders and magnetometers that it can use to search for objects of interest below the waves.
via Wikimedia
The JMSDF submarine rescue ship JS Chiyoda.
Initially, specialized deep-sea sensors and submersibles seemed particularly necessary since the F-35A was understood to have crashed in an area where the Pacific Ocean is up to 5,000 feet deep. This is far deeper than the maximum depth for divers and beyond the crush depth for most combat submarines. However, U.S. officials have since revised the depth estimate to a much shallower 1,500 feet. This would make the search effort easier, but would also make it easier for other actors to try and recover parts of the crashed jet, which could provide them with valuable details about the Joint Strike Fighter and its capabilities.
Japanese and American officials have downplayed the prospect of a foreign power, such as Russia and China, locating the crash site first and recovering sensitive parts of the Joint Strike Fighter or its onboard systems. Russia, in particular, has an extensive fleet of special mission submarines specially configured for deep-sea intelligence gathering and salvage work, including the possible ability to deploy their own deeper-diving remotely operated vehicles.
“There has been a lot of wild speculation in the media about other countries racing to find the wreckage,” an unnamed U.S. military official told Stars and Stripes in an Email on Apr. 17, 2019. “To date, we’re not seeing it, but we continue to monitor.”
But it seems hard to see how Japan or the United States could know for sure given that the exact location of the wreck remains unknown and valuable debris may have shifted beyond any primary crash site in the intervening weeks. Regardless, that the U.S. military, as well as their Japanese counterparts, admittedly continue to monitor the situation for possible foreign interference underscores the potential risks. The F-35 and its associated systems are highly controlled and subject to a variety of security protocols.
JASDF
A JASDF F-35A.
Japan, where Mitsubishi Heavy Industries runs a Final Assembly and Checkout (FACO) facility that locally assembles the country’s F-35s, will soon be getting an American-run F-35 Technology Security Support Team (TSST), if one isn’t in place already, to monitor for potential breaches. The U.S. military’s F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) announced it was looking for contractors to perform the TSST mission in August 2018.
“The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) requires comprehensive National Industrial Security Operating Manual (NISPOM) multi-discipline security guidance and mentorship to the Japanese Ministry of Defense (JMoD), Acquisition Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA), Air Staff Office (ASO), and Japanese Industry Contractors,” according to one contracting document. “TSST efforts shall include prescribing security measures that deny unauthorized access to F-35 facilities, equipment, and resources, and protect personnel, information, and property from damage and/or loss of technology.”
It is unclear whether “security measures” related to “damage and/or loss of technology” would include the development of standard operating procedures to respond to crashes and other mishaps. The TSST’s mandate certainly highlights the security sensitivities regarding the F-35 no matter what.
All told, nearly a month after Japan's F-35A crashed in the Pacific, there is still a very active search for the wreckage and it doesn't look likely to end any time soon.
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Search and rescue teams found wreckage from a crashed Japanese F-35 stealth fighter in the Pacific Ocean close to northern Japan as efforts to find the missing pilot continues, authorities said on Wednesday.
“The aircraft, less than one-year-old, was the first F-35 to be assembled in Japan and was aloft for only 28 minutes on Tuesday before contact was lost.
“The plane had logged a total of 280 hours in the air since its first flight, he added.
It is only the second F-35 to crash in the two-decades it has been flying and could reignite concern about the F-35 having only one engine.
The incident came as Lockheed Martin, the F-35 manufacturer, competes for orders in Finland and Switzerland against the twin-engined Eurofighter Typhoon and Boeing F/A-18E/F jet.
“The advanced, single-seat jet was flying in good weather about 135 km east of the Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture at about 7:27 p.m. (1027 GMT) on Tuesday when it disappeared from radar.
“We recovered the wreckage and determined it was from the F-35,” a spokesman for the Air Self Defence Force (ASDF) said, adding that the pilot of the aircraft was still missing.
Eight ships and seven aircraft, including a U.S. Navy P-8 Orion maritime patrol plane, are taking part in search and rescue efforts.
Defence Minister Takeshi Iwaya told newsmen that the aircraft was at the front of a group of four planes out for training maneuvers when it sent an “aborting practice” signal and then disappeared from the radar.
“We’ll need to cooperate with the U.S. forces and I believe arrangements are being made for this,” Iwaya said, adding that the priority was on determining the cause of the accident.
A second ASDF official told Reuters that Japan has a total of 13 F-35s, including the one that crashed, which was the fifth delivered to the ASDF, but the first assembled by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan.
`Japan’s remaining 12 stealth jets are grounded for now.
“The previous four aircraft had been used for training in the United States before being brought to Japan,’’ the defense official said.
A representative for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said the company had no immediate comment.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd assembles the aircraft at a plant near Nagoya in central Japan.
The lost aircraft cost 14 billion yen (125.98 million dollars), several million dollars over one purchased directly from the U.S.
“The F-35’s pilot was a veteran flyer with 3,200 hours of flight time, but had spent only 60 hours in the F-35.
“The aircraft crashed in waters that reach a depth of around 1,500 meters, making recovery, particularly of the aircraft’s flight data recorder, difficult,’’ the official said. (Reuters/NAN)
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日本防卫省在海底发现早先坠毁的F-35A战机残骸
2019-05-28 22:19
日本防卫省表示，4月初在本州岛北海岸附近公海海域坠毁的航空自卫队F-35A战斗机的发动机与机翼残骸已被发现。
据俄罗斯卫星通讯社5月28日报道，日本防卫大臣岩屋易表示，F-35A的发动机与机翼残骸损毁严重，目前已被打捞上岸。“日本打算继续对海底展开彻底搜索，因为海底现在还分散着许多F-35A战机残骸碎片。”
据日本《产经新闻》此前报道，4月9日，日本航空自卫队一架F-35A战斗机坠毁，机上飞行员失踪。5月7日，失事F-35A的黑匣子部分零件被找到并打捞上岸，但损毁严重，且未找到储存飞行记录的部件。目前，该架F-35A的坠机原因尚不明确。返回搜狐，查看更多
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Japanese Defense Ministry found the wreckage of the previously crashed F-35A fighter jet on the seabed
2019-05-28 22:19
The Japanese Defense Ministry said that the engine and wing wreckage of the Air Self-Defense Force F-35A fighter jet that crashed in the high seas near the northern coast of Honshu Island in early April has been discovered.
According to a report by the Russian Satellite News Agency on May 28, the Japanese Defense Minister Iwaya said that the engine and wing wreckage of the F-35A was seriously damaged and has been salvaged. "Japan intends to continue its thorough search of the seabed, because the seabed is still scattered with many debris from the F-35A."
According to Japan’s Sankei Shimbun, it was reported that on April 9, a F-35A fighter jet of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force crashed and the pilot on board was missing. On May 7, part of the black box of the F-35A was found and salvaged, but the damage was severe and no parts were stored for the flight record. At present, the cause of the crash of the F-35A is not clear. Go back to Sohu and see more
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zo...nies-that-japans-missing-f-35a-has-been-found
The U.S. Military Now Denies That Japan's Missing F-35A Has Been FoundSpokespersons say that search efforts continue despite a claim from the top U.S. Air Force officer in the Pacific that the wreck was located.
By Joseph TrevithickApril 30, 2019
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There has been some confusion over whether or not Japanese or American authorities have found the main wreckage a Japan Air Self Defense Force F-35A Joint Strike Fighter that crashed in the Pacific Ocean earlier this month. A senior U.S. military officer had told reporters that personnel had found the plane, only to get contradicted by multiple other U.S. military spokespersons.
U.S. Air Force General Charles Brown, head of Pacific Air Forces (PACAF), told reporters that the location of the stealthy fighter jet was known during a press briefing on Apr. 30, 2019, according to Nikkei Asian Review. The F-35A crashed on Apr. 9, 2019 off the coast of Japan. The exact cause of the accident remains unknown. 41-year-old Japan Air Self Defense Force (JASDF) Major Akinori Hosomi was at the control of the plane at the time and also remains missing.
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“The aircraft’s been located,” Brown said, Nikkei reported. “It’s now in the recovery aspect.”
However, Nikkei later updated its story to add a statement from U.S. Air Force Colonel John Hutcheson, a spokesperson for U.S. Forces Japan (USFJ), who said that this was incorrect. Hutcheson did not clarify whether General Brown had simply misspoken or had himself received inaccurate information ahead of the press briefing.
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US Air Force General Charles Brown, head of Pacific Air Forces, speaks at a ceremony at US Forces Japan headquarters at Yokota Air Base in Japan.
“The aircraft has not been located at the bottom of the sea,” Hutcheson told Nikkei. “The U.S. military is still working with the Japan Air Self-Defense Force to locate the wreckage.”
Aircraft and ships searching for the downed aircraft and Major Hosomi did find debris from the crash, including a piece of the F-35’s tail, in the days following the mishap. There have been no reports yet that Japanese or American personnel, or anyone else, have recovered more significant portions of the plane.
“The Japanese Self Defense Force F-35A that crashed on April 9 has not yet been located or recovered,” an unspecified Air Force spokesperson subsequently said in a statement, according to Business Insider. “Japanese officials confirmed that some debris from the aircraft was found in early April, shortly after the accident. The U.S. continues to support JSDF-led search and recovery efforts.”
The search effort has moved into something of a new phase, which may be what General Brown was referring to. On Apr. 24, 2019, the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet announced that it had dispatched a salvage team on board a chartered ship, Ultra Deep Solutions' DSCV Van Gogh, to assist in finding the F-35A.
Ultra Deep Solutions
The DSCV Van Gogh.
The Naval salvage unit is bringing a commercial deep-sea submersible, additional unmanned underwater vehicles, and a TPL-25 “towed pinger locator,” with them. The ship will be able to pull the TPL-25 behind it to try and detect emergency signals coming from the wreck. We don't know what the exact functionality or concept of operations for the F-35's flight recorder, or "black box," might be and what kind of emergency locator system it, or the aircraft itself, might have. After spotting a particular signal, the Van Gogh would be able to deploy the manned submersible and drones to more closely investigate any potential crash sites.
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A TPL-25.
The Japan Maritime Self Defense Force’s (JMSDF) JS Chiyoda submarine rescue ship has already been part of the search and rescue efforts. It is equipped with a Deep Sea Rescue Vehicle (DSRV) and could carry additional remotely operated vehicles, all of which could help in finding the wreckage.
Last week, the Kaimei, a deep-sea research vessel from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, also joined the search for the downed F-35A. It has its own deep-sea remotely operated vehicle, as well as echo-sounders and magnetometers that it can use to search for objects of interest below the waves.
via Wikimedia
The JMSDF submarine rescue ship JS Chiyoda.
Initially, specialized deep-sea sensors and submersibles seemed particularly necessary since the F-35A was understood to have crashed in an area where the Pacific Ocean is up to 5,000 feet deep. This is far deeper than the maximum depth for divers and beyond the crush depth for most combat submarines. However, U.S. officials have since revised the depth estimate to a much shallower 1,500 feet. This would make the search effort easier, but would also make it easier for other actors to try and recover parts of the crashed jet, which could provide them with valuable details about the Joint Strike Fighter and its capabilities.
Japanese and American officials have downplayed the prospect of a foreign power, such as Russia and China, locating the crash site first and recovering sensitive parts of the Joint Strike Fighter or its onboard systems. Russia, in particular, has an extensive fleet of special mission submarines specially configured for deep-sea intelligence gathering and salvage work, including the possible ability to deploy their own deeper-diving remotely operated vehicles.
“There has been a lot of wild speculation in the media about other countries racing to find the wreckage,” an unnamed U.S. military official told Stars and Stripes in an Email on Apr. 17, 2019. “To date, we’re not seeing it, but we continue to monitor.”
But it seems hard to see how Japan or the United States could know for sure given that the exact location of the wreck remains unknown and valuable debris may have shifted beyond any primary crash site in the intervening weeks. Regardless, that the U.S. military, as well as their Japanese counterparts, admittedly continue to monitor the situation for possible foreign interference underscores the potential risks. The F-35 and its associated systems are highly controlled and subject to a variety of security protocols.
JASDF
A JASDF F-35A.
Japan, where Mitsubishi Heavy Industries runs a Final Assembly and Checkout (FACO) facility that locally assembles the country’s F-35s, will soon be getting an American-run F-35 Technology Security Support Team (TSST), if one isn’t in place already, to monitor for potential breaches. The U.S. military’s F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) announced it was looking for contractors to perform the TSST mission in August 2018.
“The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) requires comprehensive National Industrial Security Operating Manual (NISPOM) multi-discipline security guidance and mentorship to the Japanese Ministry of Defense (JMoD), Acquisition Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA), Air Staff Office (ASO), and Japanese Industry Contractors,” according to one contracting document. “TSST efforts shall include prescribing security measures that deny unauthorized access to F-35 facilities, equipment, and resources, and protect personnel, information, and property from damage and/or loss of technology.”
It is unclear whether “security measures” related to “damage and/or loss of technology” would include the development of standard operating procedures to respond to crashes and other mishaps. The TSST’s mandate certainly highlights the security sensitivities regarding the F-35 no matter what.
All told, nearly a month after Japan's F-35A crashed in the Pacific, there is still a very active search for the wreckage and it doesn't look likely to end any time soon.
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