This is correct.

As former (24yrs retired AF) Military Flight Safety/AIB for the Air Force, I can offer concurrence with this statement. Not a lot adding up here, especially with a supposed $80m aircraft with Top Secret equipment on board. This site, would/should have been swarmed by Military investigators, Security Forces, and recovery operations within the very same day. Their main task would be to mark and cordon off the wreckage area, keep unauthorized personnel out, and keep the area as much as they found it for the AIB/NTSB board coming. Touch nothing! Note: They would have known exactly where the plane went down thru Mode 5 on the aircraft and the pilot by the ELT in the seat. In non-wartime domestic flying, both of these should be enabled.

AIB (military) would have been convened within an hour and ranking personnel would have been flown in, briefed, and main investigation started within a couple days. Same for the NTSB (Civilian). NO ONE would be allowed in that area other than those with proper clearance levels and not even the NTSB would be allowed in until all Top Secret/ordinance materials were ID'd and removed.

Added to this would be a few questions: Why wasn't the aircraft being tracked by Mode 5? Why didn't the ELT go off? Why didn't the wing-man give exact geo-location for recovery operations to base command immediately? Why did the news of this crash literally ask for public help? All these questions are HIGHLY suspect with regard to answers given...or not given...as the case may be.

I could go on but I dont want to seem boorish, as it gets very "in the weeds". There's a LOT of details missing and a lot of questions not being answered so I'm having a hard time believing this whole episode.

This is correct.

As former (24yrs retired AF) Military Flight Safety/AIB for the Air Force, I can offer concurrence with this statement. Not a lot adding up here, especially with a supposed $80m aircraft with Top Secret equipment on board. This site, would/should have been swarmed by Military investigators, Security Forces, and recovery operations within the very same day. Their main task would be to mark and cordon off the wreckage area, keep unauthorized personnel out, and keep the area as much as they found it for the AIB/NTSB board coming. Touch nothing!

AIB (military) would have been convened within an hour and ranking personnel would have been flown in, briefed, and main investigation started within a couple days. Same for the NTSB (Civilian). NO ONE would be allowed in that area other than those with proper clearance levels and not even the NTSB would be allowed in until all Top Secret/ordinance materials were ID'd and removed.

Added to this would be a few questions: Why wasn't the aircraft being tracked by Mode 5? Why didn't the ELT go off? Why didn't the wing-man give exact geo-location for recovery operations to base command immediately? Why did the news of this crash literally ask for public help? All these questions are HIGHLY suspect with regard to answers given...or not given...as the case may be.

I could go on but I dont want to seem boorish, as it gets very "in the weeds". There's a LOT of details missing and a lot of questions not being answered so I'm having a hard time believing this whole episode.