My only point was that, to me, 10% of them coming back to the ground without a pilot seems like a lot of airplanes being "totalled".

Now, to nit-pick, some of those craft were two-seaters, and two ejections would result in the uncontrolled coming to Earth of only one airplane.

And, some pilots and GIBs (Guy/Girl In Back) didn't survive the ejection.

Some ejections occurred on the ground, and the plane survived intact.

So, I figured it roughly averaged out to one survival, one plane.

Obviously some of them were shot down, some of them hit birds, there were a lot of reasons.

Still seems like a lot of iron (aluminum, titanium, plastic, copper, whatever) in an "uncontrolled return mode". No criticism, just an observation.

Arf