Or the fellow who ejected from his Navy jet UNDERWATER. It worked.

The B-29 story involved a plane breaking up.

At about this time, Wade McCook, the tail gunner made it to the other injured waist gunner, Matt Berk. When the nose glass blew off, the ship went into a dive for a few seconds before breaking in half at the waist. McCook and Berk were trapped in the aft section with no way out. Berk, half dead, lost conscious and McCook could only hang on as the entire tail section wafted to the ground like a leaf!

There's another about a lone tail gunner over the Himalayas who rode into a snowbank.

And I've seen a B-17 in the Olympic Peninsula which flew into the top of a mountain in the early '50s. It plowed into deep snow near the top, came to rest and then slid backward for 800 feet. Approximately half the crew survived.

It's cannibalized, but still there. I'd call that a bad day for the pilot.

Arf