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F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before fighter jet crashed in Alaska (www.cnn.com)
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[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

he probably crashed it just to get out of that meeting 🤣

[–] z_poster365@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 week ago

Jeez work these days, did this really have to be a meeting? Couldn’t they have sent an email?

[–] bettyschwing@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 week ago

Attempts to fix the landing gear caused the fighter jet to think it was on the ground, ultimately leading to the crash.

F-35s never fail to make me chuckle