[oh8eleven]

... they found parts of the ejection seat at the crash site. He would have still been strapped in it if it was there.
Then why did they say - "No word on whether officials have found the pilot's body." ?

[pfflier]

Think about it a little more...

[hattend]

I was on a crash recovery crew at Holloman AFB in the 80’s. An F-15 went down with pilot on board. We found pieces of him, most the size of a quarter, hanging in every bush or tree around. We had a medical examiner along who had to make a determination of whether what we were putting in the bag was human.

There was no body to “find”