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

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291 points Michelangelo11 | 2 comments | 27 Aug 25 11:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.4s | 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. impish9208 ◴[27 Aug 25 19:46 UTC] No.45044206[source]▶
This is one of the reasons why I don’t call myself a software engineer. Very few of us are actually doing anything resembling engineering. I’d have been like, “I can’t reproduce this production bug on my local system,” tagged the issue with ‘needs more info’ and moved on to something else.
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2. renewiltord ◴[28 Aug 25 01:03 UTC] No.45047130[source]▶
On the other hand, I call myself a software engineer because I manage risks and benefits very well. Civil engineers, on the other hand, could hardly be called engineers. Every year they kill people. In my field, someone kills a person and they become a Wikipedia article.

Now that's having standards.