F-35 pilot was on 1-hr call with engineers before ejecting jet that crashed in US
A US Air Force pilot spent nearly an hour on an airborne call with Lockheed Martin engineers trying to fix malfunctioning F-35 before it crashed in Alaska in January, revealed an accident report. He had ejected safely with minor injuries, but the $200-million plane got destroyed. Crash was caused by ice in hydraulic lines of nose and main landing gears.