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278 points Michelangelo11 | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 11:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

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voidUpdate ◴[27 Aug 25 12:04 UTC] No.45038504[source]▶

> "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?

1. lentil_soup ◴[27 Aug 25 12:08 UTC] No.45038550[source]▶

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

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