F-35 jet crashes in South Carolina

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An F-35B joint strike fighter crashed near Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort in Beaufort, South Carolina, on Friday.

"The U.S. Marine pilot safely ejected from the single-seat aircraft and is currently being evaluated by medical personnel," said a statement from the Marines. "There were no civilian injuries." The cause of the crash, a first for the F-35, is under investigation.

The F-35 is the world's most expensive weapons project and has been bogged down in delays and unexpected costs for years. Each plane costs about $100 million, depending on its features. Read more on why the "'everything' fighter jet is a total disaster" here at The Week.

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Bonnie Kristian
Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.