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

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278 points Michelangelo11 | 2 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. whazor ◴[27 Aug 25 15:25 UTC] No.45041007[source]▶
In a good engineering and a safety culture, a death should never be considered the mistake of a couple individuals. Mistakes are always because of a process failing.
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2. LorenPechtel ◴[27 Aug 25 19:53 UTC] No.45044322[source]▶
Mostly. There comes a point where stupidity exceeds the ability to design around it.