Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
More than 40 C-135s of assorted variants were lost between service entry and the point in 2008 when crew stopped carrying parachutes.
Not a single crew member aboard any of those 40+ aircraft bailed out.
That is not telling the whole story. How many of those losses were of crewed aircraft actually flying on ops and at a height where a bail out might have been possible?