[grogenaut]

to add

4 - if you had control with some badass AI why not land the plane safely for a recovery... the example in both the OP and the GP are planes lost in the country they are from not in enemy territory. The planes are not cheap... why would you purposefully wreck it in in a safe location.

[mrb]

Actually my example assumed being in enemy territory. Nosedive the airplane for maximum destruction, to prevent the enemy from recovering anything useful from the crash site.

[MarkMarine]

What do you think they’ll get? China already hacked in and grabbed the full design docs for the F-35. They have a stealth clone of it.

[MarkMarine]

EXACTLY