The Department of Defense is probably looking at Lockheed Martin’s refund policy after a brand-new F-35 fighter jet crashed on Tuesday afternoon. The recently built aircraft was being transferred from an assembly plant in Fort Worth, Texas to Edwards Air Force Base in California. The F-35B slammed into a hillside near Albuquerque International Sunport in New Mexico.
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Crews are responding to a military aircraft crash near University and Rio Bravo Tuesday afternoon. AFR says one person was rescued from the downed aircraft.
The jet had been flying from a Lockheed Martin facility at the Naval Air Reserve Station in Fort Worth, Texas to Edwards Air Force Base in California when it crashed.