Ejector seats are designed to be as safe as possible—but there are obvious inherent dangers in a rocket-powered ejection from a fast-moving aircraft. Ejecting from a fighter jet is a wrenchingly ...

Two Air National Guard fighter jets clipped each other’s wings midair, forcing one of the pilots to eject into the ocean and be rescued by a Coast Guard helicopter a few hours later off the Virginia ...

It is a live or die decision that no fighter pilot ever wants to make — and it needs to happen in milliseconds. Pulling a jet's emergency ejection lever sets off a chain of unstoppable events. In an ...

In a harrowing operation over nearly two days, hundreds of U.S. troops rescued the two crew members of an F-15E Strike Eagle after they ejected from their jet, which was shot down during a combat ...

VAN BUREN TWP, MI - The owner and pilot of a 1981 MiG-23 plane that crashed during a 2023 air show is suing his passenger, saying he had no authority to eject the pair. Daniel Filer, then 61, was ...

Recent footage and reports from Iran suggest the U.S. and Iran are now racing to recover the pilots of the downed F-15E fighter jet, dead or alive. A charred ejection seat has been found in southern ...