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F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash (www.cnn.com)
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[–] whats_a_lemmy@midwest.social 19 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

An inspection of the aircraft’s wreckage found that about one-third of the fluid in the hydraulic systems in both the nose and right main landing gears was water, when there should have been none.

How does that happen?

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

Maybe some flight tech at the base attached the hose for refilling a water (maybe cooling for the pilot) system to the wrong port.

I'm not very sure though, as ports in the aerospace world, whether electrical or plumbing tend to use different shapes/models within the same grouping to prevent misconnectionsp

[–] m532@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 weeks ago

Plane had a cold