October 24, 2010: Three years ago, a navigator in the rear seat of a British Tornado jet fighter died when he fell out of the aircraft. Details of the accident are only now being made public. At the ...

Fortunately, ejection seats saved all four crew members’ lives. ACES II Ejection Seat to the Rescue The B-1B uses a lightly customized variant of the Collins Aerospace ACES II ejection seat ...

The individual later succumbed to their injuries. The accident took place when the ejection seat in the aviator’s T-6A Texan II training plane “activated during ground operations,” according ...

In 2022, the military grounded 76 T-6s amid safety concerns, including potential defects in the explosive cartridges within their ejection seats, according to Military.com. An investigation has ...

Britain's Royal Air Force has modified the ejection seat harnesses on its Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft following a fatal accident in Spain, the Ministry of Defense said Monday. The RAF ...