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

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278 points Michelangelo11 | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 11:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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freefaler ◴[27 Aug 25 12:06 UTC] No.45038516[source]▶
So as a pilot you can't override the software to stop it from "thinking that the plane is on the ground" mode?

Something similar happened recently with A320 when it didn't want to land on an airfield during emergency unless it was flown in a special mode. But F-35 doesn't have that?

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1. foxyv ◴[27 Aug 25 14:58 UTC] No.45040610[source]▶
That's kind of funny. Most fighter jets have an emergency override for the gear so you can use gravity or maneuvers to drop them to a down and locked position even during hydraulic and electrical failures. I can understand not being able to bring the gear up, but getting the gear down should be very easy.

I wonder if the F-35 has a similar gear override.