[Flyingkag]

Hey guys,

I was astonished, searching on some pilots destinies, to find exactly the same kind of WWII witnesses statements about 3 histories;

In these 3 histories, the planes (2 x P-47, and one P-51) crashed with a nearly horizontal approach (as if trying belly landing), and hit the ground "scratching it" first, then coming "ass over head (180° turn over the propeller) and being totally destroyed, scattered in many thousands part along a very long path (200 meters long triangular dispersion of parts).

In all these cases, the pilot was found in "one piece", not burned, and two of them were described with no evident sign of violence, "as if he was sleeping", laying on the side, or face against ground, "with NO visible wound, neither blood on face etc... (but IDPFs showed they had had many many - deadly - fractures, and fatal internal bleeding of course)

I always asked myself how it was possible they were ejected out of their plane, if seat belt and shoulder harness were still locked. Is it possible?

Would logically - as I imagine - the pilot be ejected IN FRONT OF the plane as it makes its 180° turn on crashing, (as with a catapult) so that the pilot is found in the middle of the plane parts, about 50 meters ahead the main impact point, in the axis of the trajectory of the crashing plane?

Would logically the pilot be ejected THROUGH the canopy in such a scenario, or would the canopy be ejected forward to, so that the pilot doesn't hit it? I guess he would have been hardly wounded on head and would have been bleeding on face if ejected through the canopy?

Not a very funny subject, I confess, but I would be interested to have your point of view about it.

Thanks for any help, Mathias