[Pukin Dog]

It is fiction.

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.

[agent_delta]

My understanding, as an aviation reporter, is that any airshow performer is instructed to dispose of the airplane in the safest manner possible before ejecting.

I will agree to disagree with you.

[Grammy]

My opinion is based on personal experience, from the pilot’s mouth.

[Grammy]

I will amend my previous statement. My opinion is based on personal experience and from the pilots mouth and from the commendation on his wall.

We will agree to disagree.

[null and void]

I know more than one pilot who steered their F-8 away from civilization before punching out.

Our Mayor's daughter brought an A-10 back to base when it had been shot to shreds and had no hydraulics.

Scores of pilots in Vietnam flew mortally wounded jets back to the coast before punching out.

Pilot don't like to be on the ground in a combat zone. It's dangerous and dirty down there!

[missnry]

With emphasis on "uncontrollable" aircraft not like this F-18 that landed.