[Chad C. Mulligan]

Maybe the malfunction was the pilot pulling the eject handle without adequate reason to.

[pfflier]

Maybe the malfunction was the pilot pulling the eject handle without adequate reason to.

You would have to be there to know for sure. But, that was my first reaction.

[srmanuel]

I was certainly never a Naval Aviator, I would imagine pulling the ejection handle by mistake is an automatic dismissal from being a pilot.