Plane passenger accidentally activates ejector seat

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ! that was fun, let's do it again
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If it was me, that's what I would have said! But then again, I KNOW what that yellow/black handle is for....
 
Reminds me of the story of a Jet Provost owner who brought his brother for an aerobatic flight back a few years ago. When the pilot went inverted the complete passenger ejector seat c/w pilot's brother slid off it's rails and smashed through the canopy. Pilot recovered to a nearby airfield distraught at the though of having killed his brother only to find out later that the ejectee had managed to parachute to safety!An investigation was carried out and it seems that the seat bolts had been removed by the RAF when the JP was decomissioned. :bump:
 
kilo delta said:
Reminds me of the story of a Jet Provost owner who brought his brother for an aerobatic flight back a few years ago. When the pilot went inverted the complete passenger ejector seat c/w pilot's brother slid off it's rails and smashed through the canopy. Pilot recovered to a nearby airfield distraught at the though of having killed his brother only to find out later that the ejectee had managed to parachute to safety!An investigation was carried out and it seems that the seat bolts had been removed by the RAF when the JP was decomissioned. :bump:
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I once was in a squadron with a fellow who had that happen to him.

According to him, he was in the backseat of an early F-4. The hotshot pilot decided to do an inverted rejoin on the wing. when the pilot rolled inverted the Martin Baker seat, which was not installed correctly, slipped enough to fire the rocket motor. My friend found himself making a silk letdown into the Gulf of Mexico.

What was interesting, is that years later I read a book written by the pilot. He described the incident and even named my friend. In the pilot's version it was negative G's that caused the seat to rise on the rails and fire. :)

Knowing my friend as I do and after reading the pilot's book, I would tend to believe my friend's version is closer to the truth. :isadizzy:
 
A friend of mine, who was at one time a fast jet instructor, used to reassure his new crop of fresh faced pilots, used to nothing more powerful than a Chipmunk of Percival Piston Provost with the words' "If you hear the words eject, eject, eject, don't say what, because you will be talking to yourself"
 
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