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Not being able to do a touch-and-go without crashing afterwards seems like a significant flaw in the aircraft.

Isn't there an arrested-landing equipped version of the F35? Could this same problem happen with a bolter?

The mishap involves doing touch-and-go twice with an arrested landing capable version of the aircraft. The report even says that they considered doing arrested landing, but it was deemed as too much risk for the pilot (apparently the actual flight manual of F-35A advises against trying that with non-centered NLG), because the ways how that could go horribly wrong do not allow for safe ejection.

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