F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash

> "they likely would have advised a planned full stop landing or a controlled ejection instead of a second touch-and-go"

Is that not what the pilot did anyway? Or is a "controlled ejection" different from what they did?

I had the exact same thought.

The article mentioned that the aircraft become uncontrollable once it thought it was on the ground and switched control modes. And then the pilot ejected.

I assume a controlled ejection would have been during controlled flight at a time and location specifically chosen. This ejection was necessary because the plane was uncontrollable in the end.

If I understood correctly, the ejection came after the second touch and go made the plane go into landed mode which made it impossible to fly anymore

Ah, I see, ejection in a controlled situation instead of "oh no, time to go now"