“I’m of the opinion the plane was hacked.”
Maybe. Rumor has it the wrong software package was loaded.
“The hacker ejected the pilot and who knows what the intentions were for the plane.”
The ejection seat in an F35 (and basically any plane) is 100% independent of the rest of the bird’s systems, by design.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/the-f-35b-can-eject-its-pilot-automatically
The B model does had auto eject.