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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 18:30:43 -0400 From: [… OMISSIS …] Subject: F-35 'Overwhelmed' By Pilot Attempts To Save It /Corrected/ (AVweb)

An unstable approach, a misaligned helmet and an ``overwhelmed'' flight control system led to the crash of an Air Force F-35 at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida last May. An Air Force accident report <https://www.afjag.af.mil/Portals/77/AIB-Reports/2020/May/Eglin%20AFB%20F35A%...> released a few weeks ago found plenty of fault with the pilot's actions but it was ultimately the airplane that wouldn't allow itself to be saved. The plane's overworked processor set the horizontal stabilizers to the ``default'' position of trailing edge down just as the pilot initiated a go-around to try his landing again. When the aircraft didn't respond to firewalled throttle and full back pressure on the stick, the pilot ejected and the plane rolled, caught fire and disintegrated. The pilot suffered minor injuries and the aircraft, worth $175,983,949, became a debris field.

https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/f-35-overwhelmed-by-pilot-attempts-to-sa...

Gotta love quoting nine-digit airplane cost down to the dollar. I guess it include fuel in the tank.

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Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher CNR-ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy (http:www.isti.cnr.it) FM&&T Lab. (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it) http://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - ph: +390506212982, mob: +39 348 8283101, fax: +390506212040 =================== I don't quite know whether it is especially computer science or its subdiscipline Artificial Intelligence that has such an enormous affection for euphemism. We speak so spectacularly and so readily of computer systems that understand, that see, decide, make judgments, and so on, without ourselves recognizing our own superficiality and immeasurable naivete with respect to these concepts. And, in the process of sospeaking, we anesthetise our ability to evaluate the quality of our work and, what is more important, to identify and become conscious of its end use. […] One can't escape this state without asking, again and again: "What do I actually do? What is the final application and use of the products of my work?" and ultimately, "am I content or ashamed to have contributed to this use?" -- Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum ["Not without us", ACM SIGCAS 16(2-3) 2–7, Aug. 1986]