Air Force’s F-35 fleet returns to service after grounding over US crash

14 October 2018, 7:35 pm

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The Israeli Air Force returns its fleet of F-35 fighter jets to service after inspecting the planes to ensure they did not have the same issue that appears to have caused an American plane to crash last month, the army says.

On September 28, an American F-35B — a model not used in the IAF — crashed in South Carolina, apparently as a result of a defective fuel line in the motor. In light of the crash — the state-of-the-art aircraft’s first — the American, British and Israeli air forces grounded their fleets.

“The ‘Adir’ aircraft of the Israeli Air Force are going back into routine and operational activities today,” the army says.

— Judah Ari Gross