A US Air Force F-35 pilot spent 50 minutes on an airborne conference call with Lockheed Martin engineers trying to solve a problem with his fighter jet before he ejected and the plane plunged to the ground in Alaska earlier this year, an accident report released this week says.
The Air Force’s Accident Investigation Board concluded that “crew decision-making including those on the in-flight conference call,” lack of “oversight for the hazardous material program,” which oversees storage and distribution of the hydraulic fluid, and not properly following aircraft hydraulics servicing procedures, all contributed to the crash.
They managed to put the blame on just about every person involved with the plane while still managing to avoid pointing out an obvious design flaw with the plane.
They managed to put the blame on just about every person involved with the plane while still managing to avoid pointing out an obvious design flaw with the plane.