But not for lack of trying:
Well thank God he is still with us! That’s all I can say. pic.twitter.com/YtL6f0BFAm
— Seb H (@sebh1981) November 29, 2021
The Royal Navy tried to launch one of their kinda pricey F-35’s from the HMS Queen Elizabeth, but wound up sending it straight to the bottom of the Mediterranean where I assume a Tom Clancy-esque adventure is currently being played out between American, Russian, British and Chinese forces to recover the airframe from the sea floor a mile down. Perhaps shockingly, this was not a result of the F-35 being a hideously expensive disaster, but because apparently the deck crew didn’t remove a rain shield from an inlet, strangling the engine (it may also have ingested a cover than had been left on the deck).
Womp womp…