Happened to a F-15E out of Lakenheath back in the mid 1990's over mid Wales, though in this case the pilot had called Eject, Eject after a bird strike. Both crew pulled the handles, WSO's seat fired, the pilot's seat didn't. He managed to recover the aircraft and land at Valley. Two Hawk's landed with one less person on board than they took off with during April 1983. One was the Red Arrow which hit HV cables (groundcrew in the back thought the aircraft was a goner and banged out) and the other one was Wedge (both happened within 5 days of each other).
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