An Italian F35 jet made a vertical landing on HMS Queen Elizabeth as the search for the crashed British f-35B Lightning II stealth plane continues.
has become the third nation to land jets on the UK aircraft carrier in the race to find the missing plane.
The Royal Navy were racing to the Mediterranean where the aircraft is crashed amid fears would try to salvage the plane to uncover secret tech onboard.
The UK is believed to have the equipment and manpower to rescue the destroyed £120million aircraft but their allies were reportedly closer.
Royal Navy servicemen were already working with the Americans to recover the F-35B Lightning II from more than a mile below the surface.
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