Op examines the extraordinary case of Marine Corps Colonel Charles “Tre” Del Pizzo and an F-35B flight over South Carolina that suddenly became anything but routine.
Descending through bad weather toward Joint Base Charleston, Del Pizzo encountered a rapid series of cockpit failures that left critical displays and communications unreliable. Seconds mattered. He made the decision every fighter pilot hopes never to make—and soon found himself descending beneath a parachute into a stranger’s backyard.
But his 911 call introduced a considerably stranger problem.
Del Pizzo was on the ground.
His jet wasn’t.
How does one of the most sophisticated aircraft ever built simply keep going without its pilot—and where exactly does it go?
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