Originally Posted by
dsc810
Only slightly related
I recall a T38 Talon (tandem seating) with an engine failure on takeoff where both occupants ejected at the same time and the ejector seats hit each other causing both to malfunction with the inevitable double fatal outcome.
Sad, sometimes bad stuff happens...
The F-4 had a sort of potential nasty where if the rear seater pulled the handle just before the front seater the rear seater would be going up the rails just as the front seat canopy ejected.... the rear seater would quite possibly "collect" the canopy with probably fatal results. As a result the SOP was if time was short the front seater would eject without warning, leaving the nav to eject PDQ..which in turn is why the nav got burns in the ejection I referred to early in the thread.