Defective automatic trousers hurl pilot from plane

[toprob]

Oh yeah.

[J_Eden]

Brings a new meaning to a tight squeeze.....

James

[firefly]

expensive pair of pants

[SUBS17]

I'm quite sceptical on this one, its a long way from the g suit to the ejection seat handles.

[Zöltuger]

I'm quite sceptical on this one, its a long way from the g suit to the ejection seat handles.

I always thought ejection seats were designed not to be triggered accidently. Could be fake, could be real.

[Charl]

Well, what would you say if you drove a perfectly good aircraft into a hillside by accident?
Erm, I was just adjusting the radio??

[SUBS17]

I'm quite sceptical on this one, its a long way from the g suit to the ejection seat handles.

I always thought ejection seats were designed not to be triggered accidently. Could be fake, could be real.

Most ejection seats require the pilot to physically pull a lever either between the legs or over the helmet. Its not the sort of thing that can be triggered by a g suit which IRL don't inflate enough to pop the lever between the legs. On another note an AV8B pilots seat fired its chute but not the seat when the pilots oxygen system failed at high altitude. The result was the pilot was dragged out of the cockpit by his chute and fell to the ground leaving a pilotless Harrier to fly across the UK and crash into the sea.