Ice in the landing gear caused the crash of an F-35 at Eielson Air Force Base in January, according to a new military report released this week. The pilot declared an emergency and ejected prior to ...

An F-35 Lightning II fighter jet that went down at Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks in January crashed after attempts to fix frozen landing gear left the plane uncontrollable, according to an Air ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An F-35 fell from the air and exploded in a fireball in Alaska earlier this year. An investigation found that ice made automated ...

The U.S. Air Force attributed the crash of an F-35 on the runway at Eielson Air Force Base in January to water that froze in the landing gear struts. The F-35A operated out of Eielson AFB by the 355th ...

An Air Force F-35 pilot was on the phone midair with Lockheed Martin engineers for nearly an hour attempting to resolve a landing gear issue before ultimately having to eject from the jet, according ...

The F-35 will also serve as a test bed for technologies that will become commonplace in the next generation of jets. Flying ...