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?

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.