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If the Backseater got scared and prematurely ejected as the article suggests, does that mean that the pilot had to eject also?
Or could he have kept his own canopy intact and flown the airplane to a landing with the wings extended and the engine running at a moderate throttle setting?
Most jets have a lever in the pilots cockpit the allows him to select if each man ejects independently or one man pulls his handle and both seats fire.
If one pull ejects both seats is selected, then there is a contract, an understanding among the crew how that will go down.
It the command override (pilot selects the how ejection goes down) function exists in that plane, I can’t imagine a pilot in command selecting the “you go, we go” setting.
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