Luckiest Pilot alive?

[Captain Calamity]

Originally Posted by Fareastdriver

Wasn't there a Vulcan pilot who ejected way below the seat parameters. As his parachute started deploying it got caught in some powers lines that fused the cords and the wires together and then the HT wires brought him to a halt.

He then swung down to the vertical and stepped out of his harness.

Extract from the Board of Inquiry report relating to the crash of Vulcan XM604:

"The aircraft had rolled to port through at least 90 degrees but not more than 120 degrees, with a nose down angle of between 15 and 20 degrees when the Captain ejected from an approximate height of 300 feet by pulling the face blind. The blind partially covered the right side of his face because he only used his right hand to pull the face screen firing handle. Due to the attitude of the aircraft and the low height at the time of ejection the parachute had only streamed when the pilot passed through high tension cables close to the scene of the accident. The canopy caught one cable, pulled that cable onto the next one and caused an electrical short. This fused the nylon panels together which acted as a brake, and the pilot was lowered to the ground. As his feet touched he undid the quick release box and walked away."