so they found that plane
it turns out they actually found it yesterday, and from the timestamp on this article, that was public information while a lot of the conversation about it being missing was still going on
the boring truth is that yes, of course it crashed almost immediately after the pilot ejected, what else could it possibly have done?
we're glad people got to joke about it and have fun though
@irenes Apparently “go land itself” was an alternative once.
@nazgul that IS pretty cool
we have friends who, for reasons we will never understand, enjoy learning about military hardware. those friends explained the thing about modern fighters intentionally destroying their own electronics after an eject; of course the full details are non-public but that was the basis of the speculation that it wouldn't be able to do anything complicated.
@robryk @nazgul no idea either.