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F-35 stealth fighter makes emergency ‘belly landing’ after malfunction

By Christopher Hutton
Published January 5, 2022 1:07pm ET
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F-35 stealth fighter makes emergency ‘belly landing’ after malfunction
President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, Polish President Andrzej Duda, and his wife Agata Kornhauser-Duda watch a flyover of one of two F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft at the White House, Wednesday, June 12, 2019, in Washington. | (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

After technical malfunctions forced an emergency landing, a South Korean fighter craft went “belly up.”

A South Korean F-35A stealth aircraft made an emergency “belly landing” on Tuesday after suffering a malfunction in its landing gear, the first of its kind among the country’s air fleet.

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