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F-35 Pilot Held Nearly Hour-Long Conference Call Mid-Air to Fix Fighter Jet Before It Crashed
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F-35 pilot held nearly hour-long conference call mid-air to fix fighter jet before it crashed
A F-35 pilot spent 50 minutes on a conference call mid-air with engineers to solve a problem with a $200 million jet before it plummeted onto the runway at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska, forcing him to eject from the aircraft, according to a report.
A US Air Force F-35 pilot spent 50 minutes in mid-air consultation with Lockheed Martin engineers to try to fix a problem on the plane but was unsuccessful, causing the fighter jet to crash in Alaska in January.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/27/us/alaska-f-35-crash-accident-report-hnk-ml Tldr: A pilot spent 50 minutes talking to 5 Lockheed engineers while...
A US Air Force F-35 pilot spent 50 minutes in an in-flight conference call with Lockheed Martin engineers trying to troubleshoot a problem with his fighter jet before ejecting and crashing into the ground in Alaska earlier this year.
/VIDEO/ When an F-35 fighter pilot ejected from Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska in late January, it appeared to be a sudden failure with no apparent cause. Only now has an investigation revealed that before the crash, he spent nearly an hour in the air on a conference call with the manufacturer's engineers, with whom he unsuccessfully tried to resolve a stuck landing gear. But eventually the plane became uncontrollable and crashed to the ground…
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