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F-35 crash in South Carolina

There has to be more to this story then is being said. There is always an though and intense investigation after any incident. Some conflicting information on the aircraft's display issues. Only a few will ever know for sure!
Seems like the report posted by @buckbuck was pretty thorough.
 
Pilots are taught to rely on and trust their instrumentation at all costs. If there was heavy rain and no view of the horizon but the plane was still controllable, you could argue he should have tried to fly the plane.... get above the weather.... and then troubleshoot the situation. Bit if the weather was going to crap and he could not tell where he was or where he was going with no view of the horizon, hard to blame him for punching out.

Pilots know they are also not supposed to trust their "senses" because without the horizon visible they could feel like they are climbing when they are actually descending or vice versa.

A guy that experienced would know whether his backup systems were functional and reliable..... but stuff happens and they are human. The best of pilots have made fatal mistakes in some circumstances.
 
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