https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2022/01/28/navy-says-the-leaked-images-of-the-f-35-crash-into-the-south-china-sea-are-real/
Video embedded in the article
From the video the weather looks like clear daylight. I wonder what the mishap itself was. I'm just guessing it wasn't a new guy doing his first carrier landing.