Luckiest Pilots
First time poster - Here's two 'luckiest pilot' stories that are too long to fully tell here, but look up 'Bill Parks - Lockheed Aircraft', and Bill Weaver - again, Lockheed Aircraft.
Parks and Weaver both have the shared distinction of having left a 'Blackbird' as it broke up around them while flying at design speed and altitude. Weaver was pitched out of his airplane as it broke totally apart; Parks either ejected from his or was also 'thrown out'. Both magically survived to fly again. (Sadly, in each of these Blackbird accidents, both back seaters were lost.)
In his Lockheed career, Bill Parks made a total of four 'nylon let-downs', and died in 1996 at the age of 70.