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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

Horrible news. Chances of finding the pilot diminish with every hour, of course. It's been long enough that I don't think they are looking for a surviving pilot anymore.

I was thinking it but didn't want to say it. I assume that if the pilot is alive, it shouldn't be that tough to find him.

I've spent an awful lot of time at the MHI facility in Nagoya. We were performing heavy maintenance and modifications to Japanese Air Force 767 AWACS airplanes. Great people, top notch facility - I'm sure their F35's are at least the measure of Lockheed's own.

I bet we never hear what happened.

In my experience, the Japanese are meticulous and do things just about as well as they can be done.