USN F-35C Crashes in the South China Sea Soon After Taking-Off From USS Carl Vinson

Funny when US is staying "They must want it" while China is saying "No, we don't want it".

Guess operating so close to China's door steps made potential clean up also quite stressful and expensive.


Either way it will be a field day for marine engineers on both side to see if they can get it.

Hmmm... Perhaps a complete demolition would work? I have no idea how they would retrieve the aircraft from a deep location. If the Chinese are saying they don't want it they probably either want it in the worst way, or have already stolen all they need from our online engineering systems. And where is Howard Hughes when you need him?