this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2023
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[–] Omgarm@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm gonna need some context or I will assume Dinkelberg took it.

[–] LeLachs@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Pilot ejected, thing kept flying on autopilot. Military now can't find it. Funny story

[–] morgan_423@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] LeLachs@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Awww man, they found it :(

[–] rsh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, so, why did the pilot eject, if the plane was still flight worthy?

[–] treesquid@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

It wasn't flight-worthy, it just hadn't crashed yet. If your jet stopped properly responding to controls and you had the opportunity to eject and probably not die rather than crash and almost certainly die, what do you think you would do? Also if it lost power, it would still fly for a bit because momentum and airfoils and physics and such, but not be transmitting its position because no power, which makes it kinda hard to track because like, y'know, stealth aircraft