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jcgrillotoday at 1:04 AM2 repliesview on HN

Arms and legs can take a serious beating too. Airplane cockpits are pretty tight spaces, and to be explosively shot out of one with little notice is.. yikes.


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dborehamtoday at 2:05 AM

Ejection is often a career-ending event, unfortunately. Better than dying though.

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userbinatortoday at 1:37 AM

The pilots themselves initiated their ejections.

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