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F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash (www.cnn.com)
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[โ€“] BluescreenOfDeath@lemmy.world 26 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Sure, but who knows what shenanigans the techs and pilot were trying to convince the machine to drop the landing gear.

Under normal operations, I'd agree, but I'll bet they were putting something in a maintenance state while it was in the air, and at that point all bets are off.