Valerie Schmitz was used to her husband, David, training late at night as an F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina. But she didn't understand why, around midnight on July ...

Hundreds of Air Force and Navy planes are being grounded due to a faulty part in their ejection seats, a major safety concern if a pilot needs to eject from the aircraft suddenly. The issues first ...

An F/A-18F Super Hornet, attached to the “Red Rippers” of Strike Fighter Squadron 11, launches from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman on Feb. 22, 2022. (Mass Communications ...

A widespread issue with ejection seats that impacted hundreds of aircraft across the U.S. military last week was first discovered on an F-35A Lightning II back in April, but the Air Force didn't ...

Senior Airman Blake Anguiano, left, and Airman 1st Class Jonathan Lamb, 4th Component Maintenance Squadron aircrew egress systems journeymen, install an ejection seat in an F-15E Strike Eagle at ...

U.S. Air Force and South Korean air force F-35A Lightning II aircraft soar in a tight formation over Korea, July 12, 2022. (Senior Airman Trevor Gordnier/Air Force) The Air Force’s F-35A Lightning II ...

The US Air Force says it has grounded its F-35 fleet due to a faulty part in its ejection seat The Navy, as well as the Air Force's Education Training Command, also grounded a number of planes for the ...

The Navy has grounded a number of aircraft after finding faulty parts in their ejection seats. The Navy said the defect did not affect all the aircraft in the Navy and Marine Corps inventory. The ...

Officials look over the F-35B military aircraft wreckage, including the parachute (right) along the runway at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth, December 15, 2022. The pilot ...

October 7, 2022: The U.S. Air Force suffered a rare ejection seat failure in June 2020 in which the seat successfully ejected but the parachute did not deploy and the pilot died on impact. The widow ...

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