French pensioner shot into sky after accidentally pulling eject handle on fighter jet

Newshub ^ | 04-13-2020 | Vita Molyneux

[immadashell]

Lol. We didn’t have a Club...just a sore ass!

[Magnum44]

[Palio di Siena]

10 to 1 he crapped himself.

[Jane Long]

LOLOL!!

[llevrok]

Premature ejectualtion?

[Skooz]

I bet they had to throw the seat away.

[A Navy Vet]

Thank you.

[libertylover]

After landing, he proceeded to the German border where he surrendered.

LOL.

[libertylover]

When I was in the Air Force I worked aircraft instrumentation so I spent a lot of time in the cockpit. One day my assistant, sitting on the sill, thought it would be cute if he jerked on the ejection seat handles while I was sitting there. They have pins inserted on the ground to keep them from firing because of idiots like this, but still, I was pissed.

The thing is, if it fired I would’ve been splattered onto the ceiling of the hanger but he would almost certainly be injured or killed himself from the rocket motor blast.

Sigh. I’ve concluded that every shop has at least one “Bubba”.

[eyeamok]

Now That’s FUNNY!!!!!!!!

[Jewbacca]

Don’t know the manufacturer, but I know the mock up.

For those don’t understand, these things worked like a medieval siege engine, on a track. Big weight dropped and you flew up.

I think they are called trebuchet.

For the record, my butt was always fine. Testicles not so much.

[jimmygrace]

Well, his heart is healthy!

[Gay State Conservative]

...not an amusement park ride to do on a whim or a dare.

Yup,I understand that.Perhaps I should have specified that I'd only do it once (not that I'd get a second chance).

On a related note,I'm seriously considering taking flying lessons this summer *solely* to have the opportunity to take the wheel..*once*...with an instructor sitting next to me.And then I'll call it quits.

Approaching the moment when I'll be face-to-face with my Creator I'll call such things part of my bucket list.

[Clay Moore]

Maybe next time a pensioner says he really doesn’t want to go for a ride they will say “okay, you don’t have to.”

I wonder what it ended up costing to replace all the parts that get used and ruined?

[luv2ski]

One of my husbands high school friends lost her husband in an ejection. He was an Air Force Academy grad and pilot, just along for the ride. The ejection broke his neck.

[hoagy62]

Going through the thread, I am surprised that no one has yet mentioned the likely fact that he had to burn his underwear afterwards.

[Big Red Badger]

OHMYASS!
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IDIOCRACY.

[minnesota_bound]

#41 that looks like both pilot and backseater ejected and the plane land automatically : )

[I Drive Too Fast]

Did you see this?