Bird strike confirmed in connection with F-35A fighter's belly landing: Air Force

[soryang]

All News 17:00 January 14, 2022 Yonhap News Agency

SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's F-35A fighter jet made an emergency belly landing following a bird strike on its left engine intake earlier this month, the country's Air Force announced Friday, adding there will be a follow-up investigation on the exact cause of the incident.

It made public the results of a preliminary joint probe by South Korea and the United States into what led to the Jan. 4 case, which occurred on a runway at an air base in Seosan, 151 kilometers south of Seoul, with its pilot unharmed.

The Air Force added a team of U.S. experts will visit South Korea for an additional probe into technical details, including exactly why the aviation electronics system and landing gear of the aircraft did not work at that time...

https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20220114007200325?input=tw

[mitch96]

1. " bird strike on its left engine"... Hummm can't fly on one engine? ...nt

[rsdsharp]

2. It only has one engine.

From wikipedia:

Powerplant: 1 × Pratt & Whitney F135-PW-100 afterburning turbofan, 28,000 lbf (125 kN) thrust dry, 43,000 lbf (191 kN) with afterburner

I don’t know whether the article was simply wrong, or whether there are intakes for the engine on each side. Based on pictures from the front, I suspect the latter.

[mitch96]

4. OOps, my bad. I was thinking of the F-22..nt

[exboyfil]

3. $150M just doesn't get you what it used to I guess