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

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278 points Michelangelo11 | 5 comments | 27 Aug 25 11:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.607s | source
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m000 ◴[27 Aug 25 12:02 UTC] No.45038490[source]▶
This is wild. You can't get away from these zoom calls even as an F-35 pilot.
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1. mbirth ◴[27 Aug 25 12:05 UTC] No.45038510[source]▶
I bet, once the gear malfunctioned, Clippy popped up on the screen and suggested to call support.
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2. aduty ◴[27 Aug 25 12:16 UTC] No.45038631[source]▶
Hey, all Clippy ever wanted to do was help.
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3. m000 ◴[27 Aug 25 12:40 UTC] No.45038835[source]▶
At least it wasn't Bonzi Buddy telling jokes to lighten up the mood.
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4. Rooster61 ◴[27 Aug 25 13:51 UTC] No.45039669[source]▶
That might explain why the computer thought it was on the ground while it was flying
5. mrguyorama ◴[27 Aug 25 20:42 UTC] No.45044956[source]▶
Clippy never sold my data. Clippy never forced me to update when I didn't have time. Clippy never advertised things to me. Clippy never lied to me. Clippy didn't take hundreds of watts of power to provide incorrect answers.

Clippy was an assistant, built to help me solve problems I didn't understand, and built to help computer illiterate people use their computers more effectively and was made out of genuine expressions of making their product better for more people.