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

Who eats the loss under such circumstances?

Government or Lockheed Martin or are these 200 million dollar jets insured ?

Where did they get this 200million figure from? Sounds bogus.

The per plane cost varies a lot depending on what you want to wrap in it: how much of the development costs you amortize, the modernization program, etc. but $200m is in the range.

("Total acquisition costs" vs the marginal cost of the next plane can result in a more than 2x difference in how much you think the plane costs)

The flyaway cost of buying one more plane is probably a bit under $100m though.