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Early this month, South Korea announced it was grounding its entire fleet of F-35 fighter jets after one of the aircrafts had to conduct an emergency belly landing due to a landing gear malfunction.
The U.S. Navy has begun to make plans to recover the F-35C fighter jet that crashed Monday after striking the deck of an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea. The jet is the most advanced stealth fighter jet in the world and would have made an enticing target for China if it had attempted to recover it from the depths of the Pacific Ocean.