Actually, that is not true. Mr G's cousin was a military pilot, in the first class at the Air Force Academy. He was training a younger pilot and had a plane that was going down. He had the student eject, and managed to arrange to have the wing taken off before it crashed in the mountains. Because the wing was fairly intact (a relative term) they were able to determine it had been sabotaged by a mechanic who had some issue with the student.
His ejection handle was mounted in a frame with a description of what happened.
By the way, he was killed in an airshow accident a number of years ago.
In every branch of the service, pilots are taught to leave an uncontrollable aircraft without delay or any other considerations.
I didn't post what I did to disappoint anyone, its just a fact.
For reasons I fail to understand, there is a need by some to canonize the dead in manners like this. I guess it helps deal with the pain of loss.
I can tell you with certainty, that any military pilot doing anything other than trying to get out of a disabled jet would be working against their training, and should they survive the incident, it would have major implications on whether they were ever given another jet.