F-35B Goes Down During Hovering Test; Pilot Ejects

An advanced stealth fighter for the U.S. Marine Corps has crashed during testing at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas, reports USNI News.

On Thursday a U.S. government pilot was testing the F-35B short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing (STOVL) jet when it suffered an unspecified failure during a hover and crashed. The pilot ejected safely.

The fighter had not yet been delivered to the U.S. government.

Lockheed Martin’s F-35 final assembly plant shares a runway with the joint base.