You lost a what???
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"mishap"
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66850422
The debris of the $100m (£80m) plane - which disappeared on Sunday afternoon - was discovered in rural Williamsburg County, said authorities.
The pilot ejected from the cockpit and parachuted to safety in a North Charleston neighbourhood. -
The pilot of a $100 million stealth fighter jet parachuted safely into the backyard of a home in South Carolina after a malfunction forced him to eject from the aircraft, causing the plane to crash into a wooded area about 60 miles away.
https://apnews.com/article/marine-f35-jet-south-carolina-mishap-880e7ec997d4d0a056e81a8adfb1daaf
At the time, I am sure that the pilot do not know where the plane would crash. Do you maneuver it to crash in an uninhabited location and probably lose your life, or do you eject early and let the plane go down where it will?
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Hacked?
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2023/09/was-the-missing-the-f-35b-stealth-fighter-hacked/
The aircraft’s transponder suddenly shut off “for some reason that we haven’t yet determined,” Jeremy Huggins, a spokesman at Joint Base Charleston, told The Daily Mail.
Some speculated online that Chinese hackers had seized control of the aircraft and remotely flew the plane to Cuba, where China has established a military presence.
Iran hacked into an American RQ-170 stealth drone that was flying over Afghanistan and flew it to an Iranian airbase in 2011. Iran and China cloned the captured plane.
South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace raised questions about why such a sophisticated plane would just vanish.
Former Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein described the F-35 as a “computer that happens to fly.”
In 2018, Popular Mechanics published an article titled “The F-35’s Greatest Vulnerability Isn’t Enemy Weapons. It’s Being Hacked.” The article noted the aircraft’s Autonomic Logistics Information System, or ALIS, which keeps track of individual aircraft issues could give hackers the ability to hijack the aircraft.
“Every F-35 squadron, no matter the country, has a 13-server ALIS package that is connected to the worldwide ALIS network. Individual jets send logistical data back to their nation’s Central Point of Entry, which then passes it on to Lockheed’s central server hub in Fort Worth, Texas,” Popular Mechanics wrote. “In fact, ALIS sends back so much data that some countries are worried it could give away too much information about their F-35 operations.”
Clearly, all of this is just speculation...
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Hacked?
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2023/09/was-the-missing-the-f-35b-stealth-fighter-hacked/
The aircraft’s transponder suddenly shut off “for some reason that we haven’t yet determined,” Jeremy Huggins, a spokesman at Joint Base Charleston, told The Daily Mail.
Some speculated online that Chinese hackers had seized control of the aircraft and remotely flew the plane to Cuba, where China has established a military presence.
Iran hacked into an American RQ-170 stealth drone that was flying over Afghanistan and flew it to an Iranian airbase in 2011. Iran and China cloned the captured plane.
South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace raised questions about why such a sophisticated plane would just vanish.
Former Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein described the F-35 as a “computer that happens to fly.”
In 2018, Popular Mechanics published an article titled “The F-35’s Greatest Vulnerability Isn’t Enemy Weapons. It’s Being Hacked.” The article noted the aircraft’s Autonomic Logistics Information System, or ALIS, which keeps track of individual aircraft issues could give hackers the ability to hijack the aircraft.
“Every F-35 squadron, no matter the country, has a 13-server ALIS package that is connected to the worldwide ALIS network. Individual jets send logistical data back to their nation’s Central Point of Entry, which then passes it on to Lockheed’s central server hub in Fort Worth, Texas,” Popular Mechanics wrote. “In fact, ALIS sends back so much data that some countries are worried it could give away too much information about their F-35 operations.”
Clearly, all of this is just speculation...
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She never got the address or the phone number. It Was not at all clear to me that an ambulance was en route. It just sounded like she was dithering, unsure of what to do.
"You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell
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Check-sheet diplomacy
This is what happens with pretty much all my phone-calls nowadays. Somebody has a form.
