Of course there was S/Ldr Austin of 4Sqn Harriers in Denmark 1971 who ejected after his engine ran down (a common problem at the time). The ejection wound up the engine again and as he had left the throttle fully open trying to relight the thing went straight up due to no weight in the nose. The eject beeper was going but nobody really believed it. I think an F104G was scrambled to possibly shoot it down in case it landed in East Germany. It eventually did a very nice landing until it ran into an embankment. I think it was XV782 or 3. We had changed the engine the week before so were a bit hacked off. He bought the ground crew a few beers over this one.
I think the aircraft flew for 45 mins without a pilot which was a bit of a record at the time.