A British F-35B was forced to make an emergency landing in Japan just weeks after another of the stealth jets was left stuck in India due to a mechanical fault.
The sophisticated £88million fighter jet was diverted to Kagoshima International Airport at around 11.30am local time on Sunday.
It had been carrying out a sortie from the Royal Navy's £3.5billion aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales, which is spearheading the UK carrier strike group in the Indo-Pacific.
The warplane, one of around 24 embarked on the British supercarrier, reportedly suffered an engineering issue mid-flight and needed an emergency inspection.
Footage of the jet shows it touching down at the airport at around 2pm local time, with the incident leading to the closure of the site's runway for around 20 minutes.
