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

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278 points Michelangelo11 | 3 comments | 27 Aug 25 11:38 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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yellow_lead ◴[27 Aug 25 12:24 UTC] No.45038691[source]▶
> Five engineers participated in the call, including a senior software engineer, a flight safety engineer and three specialists in landing gear systems, the report said.

I can't imagine the stress of being on this call as an engineer. It's like a production outage but the consequences are life and death. Of course, the pilot probably felt more stressed.

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1. el_benhameen ◴[27 Aug 25 13:15 UTC] No.45039254[source]▶
That initial “oh shit” feeling must have been so much worse than for us regular boring engineers. Google’s not gonna save you on that one.
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2. rfoo ◴[27 Aug 25 13:27 UTC] No.45039386[source]▶
For a whim I read this as "us regular boeing engineers" and it was really funny.
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3. chasil ◴[27 Aug 25 13:56 UTC] No.45039766[source]▶
Except they were from Lockheed Martin.