ANKARA – Japan’s F-35A jet crash in Pacific Ocean earlier this month hasbrought to fore more incidents in which several US-made jets had to makeemergency landings, local media said on Wednesday.
According to Japanese daily Mainichi, five of the 13 stealth fighteraircraft bought by Japan made emergency landings in seven incidents fromJune 2017 to January 2019 during flight tests and drills.
“Of these, two emergency landings were due to faults recorded in therecently crashed jet,” the daily said quoting Japanese Defense Ministry.“Unplanned returns to base were made after the planes reported issues withsystems relating to fuel, hydraulics and other parts.
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Excluding one case of an error by the aircraft’s monitoring systems, theremaining six saw the fighters inspected and parts replaced before theywere confirmed safe to fly,” the daily added.
