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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: 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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airstrike ◴[27 Aug 25 13:29 UTC] No.45039409[source]▶
I don't think there was ever a risk of the plane crashing with the pilot still in the cockpit, despite the fact that the headline sort of leads people to that conclusion.

The pilot could eject at any time. Still dangerous, but more of a debugging session to avoid other similar costly in the future than a Hollywood-like "if we don't solve this now the pilot dies"

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codyb ◴[27 Aug 25 13:44 UTC] No.45039579[source]▶
Doesn't ejecting from a plane potentially break bones? I think it's pretty intense. Good on the pilot for doing the debug session
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keepamovin ◴[27 Aug 25 14:31 UTC] No.45040255[source]▶
It risks career. 2 ejections and you won’t fly for the military any more.
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shawabawa3 ◴[27 Aug 25 15:00 UTC] No.45040647[source]▶
Also isn't there like 5-10% fatality rate?
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1. 542354234235 ◴[27 Aug 25 15:30 UTC] No.45041064[source]▶
That might also be influenced by the situation which necessitated the ejection. Ejecting in optimal conditions could have a 0.1% fatality rate (not a real statistic), but cases of ejecting from a disintegrating plane at 100 feet probably aren't as safe.