F-35 fighter jet crashes in South Carolina on day $11.5bn deal announced

• Pilot ejects safely on day Pentagon heralds new purchase
  
• Plane has stealth technology Trump thinks makes it invisible

An F-35 fighter jet crashed in South Carolina, the US Marine Corps said, in the first such incident to affect the most expensive defence programme in the world.

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