According to The War Zone, a military-focused news site, fighters abandoned mid-flight have been known to continue vast distances on autopilot and even to survive the crash landing.
In 1970, for instance, a U.S. Air Force F-106 Delta Dart landed intact in a cornfield after the pilot ejected. Likewise, in 1988 a Soviet MiG-23 cruised from Poland to Belgium without its pilot, who had ejected shortly after takeoff.
2001.....“According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions,” Rumsfeld said. Of course, the events of the following day helped bury the story while giving rise to decades of conspiracy theories.
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Starlit..why even tell people he ejected unless he was perhaps (RED-OCTOBER***defecting?..foreigner? Just throwing it out there.