Is it true that the world's first woman - a fighter pilot broke the plane in her first flight?

For several years, a woman’s photograph in military uniform has been distributed on the network, accompanied by a comment that her unprofessionalism led to the loss of a combat aircraft for $ 100 million. We checked the correctness of such publications.

In viral posts, it is reported that the first in world history, the pilot, which became the pilot’s pilot, broke the plane worth $ 100 million already during the debut flight. Authors publications V Some Russian -speaking Media They cited details: the incident allegedly occurred in the early 2022 on the American aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, and the woman controlled the F-35 fighter. The publications were attached to a video on which you can hear the crew violently gives the pilot instructions, but that (or the one) cannot be leveled off and the car crashes on the deck of the ship.

At different times, popular publications about this appeared in Facebook, X, Instagram And "VKontakte", As well as in Telegram channels"Ax+"(1 million views at the time of writing this analysis),"Media Russia not Moscow"(544 000),"The ax live"(116 000),"Death note"(116 000) and"Leprosy"(116 000).

Indeed, on January 24, 2022, the world media went around news About an emergency in the South China Sea. The American F-35 fighter crashed into the deck of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier, as a result of which seven people were injured, including a catapulted pilot. IN press release The Pacific Fleet of the United States did not indicate the gender of the pilot and other personal data of the victims of the military. In the following days, the tabloids and users of social networks distributed several alleged video recordings incidents, but none of them have hints that the pilot of a broken aircraft is a woman.

Nevertheless, rumors about this appeared pretty soon. So, on the night of January 29, the English -language user Twitter (now X) with the userneum @Timetravelanon He said: “Sources on board the USS Carl Vinson report that the first woman is the F-35 pilot in the US Navy controlled the plane that fell overboard.” The message was accompanied by an emoticon and a postscript: "It was a very simple exercise of parallel parking." The blogger also gives a screenshot Notes The incident in the British tabloid Daily Mail, but there was nothing about the pilot. The post in X, rather, resembles a stereotypical sexist joke on the topic female driving. Soon like publications became viral.

At the same time, in the first few weeks after the incident, not a single official or a person associated with the USS Carl Vinson publicly declared that there was a woman at the storm of a fighter crashed into an aircraft carrier. This did not happen and subsequently - the name and floor of the pilot are preserved in secret (this is a common practice), and even in output A year later, there were no details. The investigation, by the way, confirmed that the incident occurred due to the pilot’s error, but the pilot had the necessary qualifications.

However, they began to publish a photograph of the alleged culprit of the accident already and a half weeks after the tweet @timetravelanon. A significant role in the spread of the picture was played by the Russian resource Avia.pro, whose English -speaking publication On February 7, she hugged abroad. On the same day on YouTube appeared videoWhere the text of this note was duplicated in audio format. The video collected more than 200,000 views.

As the reverse search for images using the service shows Tineye, the lieutenant colonel is captured in the viral picture Christine Mau. American official sources really called Her first woman, a pilot of the F-35 fighter. She first made a flight on this aircraft in 2015, and before that she controlled the F-15E.

That's just Mau in all reports is listed as a US Air Force pilot. The incident of 2022 happened With the US Navy aircraft, that is, another type of armed forces of the country. Moreover, in 2017, IAA went to the MAU after 20 years of service Resignation And she took up teaching work. In 2022, the LEAD Stories project Contacted With the pilot, and she said that she was the last time on the F-35 in April 2017, she was never listed in the US Navy, did not land on a aircraft carrier and never defeated her planes.

Thus, neither the first woman is a fighter pilot (back in 1936, a Turkish woman became her back Sabiha is gokachen), not the first woman-the F-35 fighter pilot Christina Mau broke the plane in 2022 on an American aircraft carrier. Moreover, there are no direct or indirect evidence that the victim crashed by the aircraft was ruled by a woman.

It was not the last happeningWhen users of social networks found a “female trace” in incidents with the F-35 where it was not. So, in 2023 in the sky above the southern carolina pilot Catapulted, leaving your plane in the air in autopilot mode. The fighter was gone, and in the social networks of the pilot announced A young woman - and again indirect evidence was the silence of the command, who did not disclose the personal data of the soldier. Later It turned outWhat a man was a man. Apparently, such conclusions are based on gender stereotypes associated with driving. The impression of fresh news could play a role - in the same January 2022 at sea For the first time The American aircraft carrier under the command of a woman came out, and F-35 were on board the USS Abraham Lincoln.

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