{"id":420439,"date":"2026-08-01T04:07:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T04:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/420439\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T04:07:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T04:07:47","slug":"pilot-ejects-from-f-35b-jet-crash-near-san-diego-marine-base-officials-say-us-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/420439\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot ejects from F-35B jet crash near San Diego marine base, officials say | US military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">An F-35B fighter jet crashed near a US Marine Corps base in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/san-diego\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego<\/a> on Friday morning, sparking a small fire that first responders doused.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The pilot, who has not been publicly identified, sustained non-life-threatening injuries, according to a statement from the Marine Corps Miramar air base. \u201cThe pilot ejected, was transported to a local medical facility in stable condition for evaluation and treatment of non-life-threatening injuries,\u201d the Marine Corps said in an updated statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">It\u2019s unclear what led to the crash, which officials characterized as a \u201cClass A mishap\u201d. That\u2019s the most severe mishap category, used when the damage totals more than $2m, an aircraft is destroyed or a service member killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A single F-35B fighter jet costs about $109m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Candace Hadley, a spokesperson for San Diego Fire, said firefighters were on scene to respond to a vegetation fire that sparked near the crash site. She referred additional questions to Miramar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The F-35B is one of several versions of the advanced stealth fighter jet that is flown by the Marine Corps, navy and air force. The \u201cB\u201d version has an engine that is designed for short takeoffs and is capable of vertical landings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">At least seven other military aircraft mishaps have happened in the US this year, according to the Flight Safety Foundation\u2019s Aviation Safety Network database.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Mishap investigations reportedly can take several months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The F-35s are considered the safest and most capable fighter jets the military has in its fleet, according to the Lexington Institute thinktank that focuses on defense technology and national security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">There have been fewer crashes involving any of the F-35 models since the jet was adopted in 2015 compared with other fighter jets when those planes were new \u2013 and fatal crashes are rare in F-35s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An F-35B fighter jet crashed near a US Marine Corps base in San Diego on Friday morning, sparking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-420439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}