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Exclusive: U.S. Marine Corps F-35C Suffers Nose Landing Gear Collapse While Parked
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this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2024
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This headline is absolutely wrong. "Collapse" means that it structurally failed. But that isn't what happened, the nose gear started retracting. Now whether that was appropriate or not, we can discuss, but if the machinations of the landing gear are functioning as designed, even if the timing of those machinations was incorrect, you can't say it "collapsed."
It could be as simple as a bad sag sensor so it didn't sense any load on the gear to prevent retraction. Not really a big story. Failures happen in every system. It's only an issue if it happens to more units.