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F-35's Grounded By Pentagon

TROUBLED CHILD

After fire.

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U.S. Navy photo courtesy Lockheed Martin via Getty Images

The long and tortured history of the F-35's has taken another turn for the worse as the Pentagon on Thursday ordered the entire F-35 Lightning II fleet grounded. The move comes two weeks after a jet caught fire during takeoff at Elgin Air Force Base in Florida. The jets, made by Lockheed Martin, were due to make their international debut in Britain on Friday.

Read it at the Washington Post