It must be one of the few aircraft still airworthy after being abandoned by its crew”.
One of our phantoms topped that one. It landed on it´s own, bent its nosegear when the jet left the runway and came to a stop in the gras, as the set power of around 90% couldn´t drive it forward any longer.
The firebrigade had easy access to shut down the engines, as the canopies had given way to the seats and their occupants. On short final a flock of birds caused an erratic evasive maneuver of the student pilot in the front seat, which scared himself that much, that he gave up the stick and grabbed for the ejection handle. The IP no longer in the backseat could do nothing else but watch the now pilotless aircraft land in the touchdownzone before he himself hit the ground.
The jet was repaired end reentered service few month later.
franzl