Originally Posted by
atakacs
So they "departed the runway" (any idea why? Mechanical? Weather?) and punched out. And the aircraft continued to roll on it own until it stopped pretty much intact. Wow...
Pretty reasonable SOP to eject in the event of leaving the runway at any speed - rollover risk is extremely high, with obvious negative outcomes. The fact that, in this case, the jet didn't roll over doesn't make the SOP wrong.
As to why it left the runway in the first place, who knows...