If you’re finding it hard to get your head around this, you’re not alone. The International Date Line causes all sorts of confusion, and whoever was programming the F-22 must have struggled to work it out. The US Air Force has not confirmed what went wrong (only that it was fixed within forty-eight hours), but it seems that time suddenly jumped by a day and the plane freaked out and decided that shutting everything down was the best course of action. Midflight attempts to restart the system proved unsuccessful so, while the planes could still fly, the pilots couldn’t navigate. The planes had
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