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Debris of US F-35 fighter jet found a day after pilot ejects from warplane

A US Air Force F-35 Lightning II warplane [Senior Airman Joseph Barron/US Air Force via AP]

The United States military said it has finally found debris from a missing F-35 fighter jet a day after asking for the public’s help in locating wreckage from the elusive warplane after a pilot ejected from the aircraft for unknown reasons.

The debris field from the F-35B Lightning II jet that went missing on Sunday afternoon was located on Monday in South Carolina’s rural Williamsburg County, according to the Marine Corps’s Joint Base Charleston.

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