The South Carolina "ghost jet": an F-35B flies on after its pilot ejects

The pilot of an F-35B of squadron VMFAT-501 ejected in bad weather near Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, and the aircraft flew on unmanned for more than a hundred kilometres before coming down in rural Williamsburg County. The Marine Corps publicly asked the population for help in locating the wreckage, and the episode became famous as the "ghost jet". The investigation found the pilot had ejected because of a cascading electrical failure that led him to believe the aircraft was lost.