Reply to post: Lucky he didn't get seriously injured during ejection.

French pensioner ejected from fighter jet after accidentally grabbing bang seat* handle

GBE

Lucky he didn't get seriously injured during ejection.

Many years ago, back when I worked in the defense industry, I read a long article in Jane's about ejection seats. Part of the article discussed the design requirements for ejection seats and the acceptable rate for an eject causing injuries like broken limbs and compression fractures of vertebra. The "acceptable" serious injury rate was pretty high.

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