Have you seen a video claiming to show the F-35 that recently crashed in South Carolina after the pilot had to eject for unnamed reasons? It’s gone viral across several social media platforms, including TikTok and X, the site formerly known as Twitter. But it’s not real.
Joint Base Charleston in North Charleston raised a lot of eyebrows on Sunday after it issued a notice that citizens should be on the lookout for an “F-35 that was involved in a mishap” that afternoon. The pilot had to eject and the plane wasn’t located until Tuesday in a debris field in South Carolina.
But a video started to do the rounds late Tuesday claiming to be footage that was captured by regular citizens of the F-35 flying and then crashing into a fireball on the ground.
The video has been shared to sites like YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and X, racking up millions of views. But it was created using a computer game called Digital Combat Simulator, sometimes abbreviated as DCS. How do we know it’s definitely gaming footage? The account that shared the video, known as iceman_fox1 across serveral platforms, admits as much on YouTube.
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