F-35 havariet i Japan - Flygeren er funnet omkommet, mens vraket blir liggende - Tyler Rogoway

Japansk F-35 ved Mount Fuji - Tyler Rogoway

In a follow-up to our ongoing coverage on the deadly crash of an F-35A belonging to the Japan Air Self Defense Force that occurred on April 9th, 2019, the body of Major Akinori Hosomi has been found after two months of searching the waters off northeastern Japan. The condition of the pilot's remains and other details regarding where the discovery occurred was not disclosed out of consideration for the experienced military aviator's family. It has also been announced that Japan has officially called off the search and recovery operation for what's left of the doomed F-35A. The U.S. Navy called offits participation in the search effort a month ago.

Large portions of the highly sensitive F-35 remain unaccounted for with just some debris having been recovered after it was spotted floating near where the crash is thought to have occurred and located thousands of feet below the Pacific Ocean's surface. The aircraft disappeared roughly 85 miles off the coast of the northern portion of Honshu Island after it launched from Misawa Air Base.