{"id":248838,"date":"2022-01-27T06:52:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T06:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=248838"},"modified":"2022-01-28T09:57:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T09:57:52","slug":"china-might-claim-salvage-rights-to-crashed-us-f-35-stealth-jet-by-calling-it-an-environmental-hazard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=248838","title":{"rendered":"China might claim salvage rights to crashed US F-35 stealth jet by calling it an &#8216;environmental hazard&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Above, the USS Carl Vinson in the East China Sea with the Japanese JS Samidare destroyer<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The USS Carl Vinson on Monday suffered a &#8216;landing mishap&#8217; with F-35C warplane<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Navy said the stealth fighter &#8216;subsequently fell to the water&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Recovery efforts could pose a problem if Beijing acts on its territorial claims to a vast majority of the South China sea<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>China could claim it was &#8216;recovering a potential environmental hazard or foreign military equipment from its territorial waters,&#8217; a retired Navy officer said<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>One geopolitics expert doubted that Beijing would take the political risk to run afoul of the United States to recover the jet\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>DailyMail.com has reached out to the Navy for an update to the search on Weds\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It is packed with the latest technology and advances in radar-deflecting design<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The ship is currently\u00a0in the South China Sea, taking part in exercises\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Elizabeth Elkind \u2013 Daily Mail Jan 26, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>A retired military official is warning on Wednesday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/china\/index.html\"><strong>China<\/strong><\/a> could claim salvage rights to an F-35 stealth fighter jet that crashed into the South China Sea earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Carl Schuster,\u00a0former director of operations at the US Pacific Command&#8217;s Joint Intelligence Center in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/hawaii\/index.html\"><strong>Hawaii<\/strong><\/a>, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/25\/asia\/us-f-35-crash-recovery-south-china-sea-intl-hnk-ml\/index.html\"><strong>CNN<\/strong><\/a> that China&#8217;s likely game plan will be to capitalize on its territorial claims in the South China Sea and claim it&#8217;s salvaging the craft for environmental purposes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Salvaging the plane with commercial and coast guard assets will enable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/beijing\/index.html\"><strong>Beijing<\/strong><\/a> to claim it is recovering a potential environmental hazard or foreign military equipment from its territorial waters,&#8217; the former Navy captain said<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. faces a race to beat Beijing\u00a0\u00a0in recovering the military plane after it plunged into the South China Sea on Monday following what the Navy termed a &#8216;landing mishap&#8217; aboard the USS Carl Vinson.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot was forced to eject and seven military personnel in total were injured.<\/p>\n<p>But as the U.S. military works to recover the craft, Schuster warned that China &#8216;will try to locate and survey it thoroughly using submarines and one of its deep diving submersible&#8217; to find it first.<\/p>\n<p>The timeline for search and recovery could stretch across months, the retired military commander said.<\/p>\n<p>Salvage ships could take between 10 to 15 days to arrive at their destination, he explained, after which point recovery could take as long as 120 days.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy has not revealed where the crash occurred, and a vast majority of the waters have been claimed by Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese government has yet to make an official comment on the matter. DailyMail.com has reached out to China&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Chinese Embassy in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10443761\/China-claim-salvage-rights-crashed-F-35-jet-say-environmental-hazard-Expert.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US recovery vessels are two weeks away from crash site in South China Sea and could take four MONTHS to retrieve the plane, which is packed with top-secret avionics and radar evasion technology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248838"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248843,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248838\/revisions\/248843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}