Yep, looks like the pilot punched as well...
CNN is making this out to be some sort of tragedy...Sympathy towards the pilot and all that...geesh...
Looks like the guy is “winchester” (no ordinance) too...I guess he didn’t have anything let to kill his countrymen with...
Sympathy??? nahhhhhh, I say that was some good shootin’!!!
I could see what appears to be at least one ejection seat, but only a small drouge parachute deployed at the end of a line over one of them. I believe that these are to orient the seat for proper main canopy deployment, but it looked to be too low for him to get the main chute open in time.
In another post an observer mentioned the Pilot’s body being brought in to a morgue, which would tend to confirm that speculation. I don’t think anyone walked away from that landing.
Another speculation I had was that Daffy may have taken his Pilot & Aircrews parachutes away in order to keep them from bailing out over “Rebel” held territory and defecting, as a couple of them apparently have.