Leonard Milcin Jr. wrote:

Jim Macklin wrote:

http://www.strangemilitary.com/content/item/110099.html




Besides being both very good and lucky pilot he risked his life to save
machine that will be written off anyway. But I suppose he wasn't aware
of that at the time...


I suspect he was fully aware of what he was doing. Keep in mind that an
ejection isn't exactly friendly to the human body either. It is a
matter of judgement and if I was in a damaged airplane that was still
flying and reasonably controllable, I'd try to fly it down rather than
punch out and risk injury from that.


Matt