It was reported today by:
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/france-fighter-jet-ejection-scli-intl/index.html
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a32131240/french-dassault-fighter-jet-joyride/
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/man-ejected-from-fighter-jet
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/09/frenchman_ejected_fighter_jet_retirement_jolly/
https://fox8.com/news/64-year-old-man-accidentally-ejected-himself-from-a-fighter-jet-at-2500-feet/
But their up to the minutes news is a little slow. A report from the Aviationist came out on April 9.
Interesting that he found the lever, not button, on the side of the seat and pulled it when it requires a 35 pound pull. It mentioned in the articles I read that are the latest information on the seat that the pilot remained with and safely landed the aircraft. The MK16 ejection seat used in these aircraft is a synchronized system designed for the rear pilot to fire out first so he/she doesn’t get the blast from the front seat. But they both are designed to go when either pilot pulls the lever.
Me thinks there is more, or less, to this than meets the eye. They don’t release the names of anyone. Additionally, the Cleveland television station that followed it jut happened to have a picture of the aircraft and the chute opened man. But I’m sure his heart rate, which was supposedly in full tachycardia between 126 and 132, how many times did they take that, reached much higher levels when he bailed. Must have been the same doctors that estimated the death by c-19 in the US as between 100K and 200K.
I’ve got some stock in a diamond mine in Brazil if anyone is interested?
rwoodf
...Except (your last link) that the trigger for the pilot's seat was damaged by the blast that ejected the passenger first.
Well, that's a heck of a design.
If I am ever about to do so, someone please remind me not to go flying in any French designed planes...