Navy recovers F-35 from bottom of South China Sea

The U.S. Navy has retrieved the F-35C Lightning II plane that crashed in January in the South China Sea.

A team made up of divers from the 7th Fleet's Task Force and a Navy salvage and diving team recovered the wreckage from the bottom of the South China Sea, about 12,400 feet below the surface, the Navy said in a press release Thursday.

The team used a vehicle operated remotely to rig and lift the aircraft with a crane lifting hook attached to the ship, the Picasso.