Missing F-35 jet was flying ‘inverted’ before crash, eyewitnesses say

WILLIAMSBURG COUNTY, S.C. — A South Carolina couple had been celebrating their son’s 7th birthday on Sunday afternoon when they looked to the skies. A fighter jet was flying above them in an “inverted” position, they said, before they heard a “boom” moments later.

“Our kids always give a little salute, so we said, ‘Look at the plane. Oh my gosh, it’s so low,'” Adrian Truluck said. “And it was kind of probably 100 feet above the tree tops, and almost going inverted.”