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Search for F-35 turns into search for answers Pilot ejected Sunday over North Charleston as MCAS Beaufort-based fighter had ‘mishap’ By Mike McCombs The Island News After a roughly 28-hour search finally located the wreckage of an MCAS Beaufort-based F-35B that crashed in rural Williamsburg County on Sunday afternoon, the search for answers has begun. In a teleconference Tuesday afternoon, MCAS Beaufort Commanding Officer Col. Mark D. Bortnem confirmed that search will likely last months.
“We have the aircraft, we’ve located the aircraft, where the (crash) site is, and now the investigation starts,” Bortnem said. “And so what we’re really looking at really starts at the crash site, looking at the wreckage that’s there, and then we’ll continue on. You can expect this investigation will last, like all of our investigations do, for several months. And the objective is to find out all of the details that occurred, and that will only hap-
pen with a detailed investigative process that looks at the wreckage, talks to the pilot, and talks to really every facet of what happened on that particular day.”
In what the Marines have labeled a “mishap,” a pair of F-35s were flying Sunday over North Charleston in the vicinity of Joint Base Charleston, when at about 1:30 p.m., one pilot was forced to eject. The pilot landed safely in North Charleston and was transported to a local medical facility where he was in stable condition at last update Tuesday. No further details on the pilot’s condition have been made avail-
able, as of press time. The second pilot landed at Joint Base Charleston, while the first plane, without a pilot and with autopilot reportedly engaged, continued to fly. At some point, Joint Base Charleston was unable to track the F-35B Lightning II. “We don’t know anything about the plane,” a Joint Base Charles-
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Beaufort’s Fleming gets 20-year sentence Former attorney helped Alex Murdaugh steal from clients By Thad Moore The Post And Courier Former attorney Cory Fleming was sentenced in state court to 20 years in prison for helping his longtime friend Alex Murdaugh steal millions of dollars, significantly extending a prison term he has already begun. In a searing address to Fleming, Judge Clifton Newman on Sept. 14 brushed Cory aside the ongoing Fleming 46-month federal prison sentence he is already serving, deciding it wasn’t punishment enough for the ex-lawyer’s betrayal of his clients. After some four hours of testimony and arguments before a courtroom crowded with Flem-
Beaufort Mayor Stephan Murray announced his resignation as mayor Friday morning, Sept. 15. Murray said he had had enough “he said-she said” bickering and ill will toward one another and decided to call it quits. Bob Sofaly/The Island News
Murray resigns as Beaufort mayor
By Delayna Earley and Mike McCombs The Island News Stephen Murray resigned as Mayor of Beaufort early Friday morning, September 15, in a long, open letter also posted to his Facebook page.
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