what happens with P51D canopy as pilot bails out?

[Flyingkag]

incredible true experience yesterday!

thanks for the information and links;

at the exact moment the pilot was bailing out at Duxford I was trying to find some plexiglas little parts of a P51D canopy in the forest some hundred meters before the Mustang crash site I'm working about;

Do you believe the canopy plexiglas would "explode" in hundreds of little parts as hitting big trees and the ground, or does it "normaly" stay in one or some big fragments - some of them still attached on the metal frame?

No idea at all about the resistance of such a plexiglas part as falling from about 50 or 20 meters high at about 150 mph!

Second hypothese would let few chances of finding something today, first one would be hopefull for a more successfull "fragments hunt"!

thanks for your kind help!