A passenger enjoying a civilian joyride accidentally cut the trip short when he ejected himself from the plane after grabbing the eject lever while trying to brace himself.
The passenger was flying in a Pilatus PC-7 Mk II with an air force pilot friend.
He was instantly blasted 320-feet into the sky by the rocket-powered chair, before floating to the ground with an automatic parachute.
Air Force officers quickly deployed a helicopter to retrieve the passenger after his fall 80 miles south of Cape Town, South Africa.
The pilot of the craft, Captain Gerhard Lourens, is a long-time member of the Silver Falcons air force air display team.
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Premature ejectulation.
80 miles south of Cape Town is in the middle of the ocean.
As a former (US) Air Force officer, I got a joy ride in a fighter. They trained me how to use the ejection seat. Actually a half-day course. The Chief (senior NCO in charge) told me two things. First, the pilot will say “EJECT!” three times only. Only, because on the third “eject” he would be gone from the plane.
The second thing he told me was that if I ejected without the pilot’s command, he would turn the jet around and cut through the parachute. By “accident”. . .
A Pilatus PC-7 is a propellor-driven plane with little wings that stick straight out.
The plane in the picture is not one. It’s a Sukhoi Su30, I think.
They’re similar in that both of them fly and have ejector-seats. That’s all.
Where this story originate shows a Pilatus PC-7.
However, the picture was an up close which I felt it didn’t show the rocket powered chair and this one did.
I don’t believe it, but I am impressed with the other comments.
damn it DJ I was gonna say that
Oh, a bit of ejection trivia. Almost no planes in the world have ejection seats that will save (your sorry butt) while the plane is on the ground. But the U2 spyplane does. Sadly, you need to take your cyanide pill once you land. . .
what they didnt tell you is they now call him poopy pants.
BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA!