Huh. I Wonder What…
…this thing does
It probably is best not to fiddle with switches or controls when riding in the back seat of an air force plane.
A man who failed to obey that principle found himself hurtling out of the cockpit, smashing through the Perspex canopy and into space after grabbing the black- and yellow-striped handle between his legs. He had inadvertently pulled the eject lever and found himself blasted 100 metres into the sky on his rocket-powered seat.
I’m sensing a future winner of the Darwin Award in the making.
Fun | Mr. Bingley | 
November 6, 2009 1:30 pm
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Probably didn’t do the aircraft a lot of good, either. I think he’s got a bill coming…
You’ve got to figure that, in addition to the canopy being ruined, that back part of the cockpit is destroyed by the rocket going off.
He’ll certainly have a heck of a story to tell his grandchildren, assuming he doesn’t kill himself in the future pulling another wrong handle.