About one in 20 ejections results in death, usually due to low altitude, or being hit/crushed by the seat.
Compare to 20 in 20 jet airplane crashes resulting in death and suddenly pulling that lever might seem a worthwhile risk to take
About one in 20 ejections results in death, usually due to low altitude, or being hit/crushed by the seat.
Compare to 20 in 20 jet airplane crashes resulting in death and suddenly pulling that lever might seem a worthwhile risk to take
> About one in 20 ejections results in death
But more than that result in injury. The possible injuries are pretty severe.
> Compare to 20 in 20 jet airplane crashes resulting in death
Crashes if the plane is totally uncontrollable, probably yes.
But there's a lot of gray area in between "totally uncontrollable" and "controllable enough that an autopilot can fly the plane". There are plenty of cases where a pilot was able to make a controlled enough crash that they walked away from it, even though the plane itself was totalled.
And once we get to the point of "controllable enough that an autopilot can fly the plane", the pilot would have no reason to eject--because the plane is controllable enough that the autopilot can fly it. Which means whatever problems exist can't be very severe--or the autopilot would be disengaging, because it needs things to be working pretty well to fly the plane at all. That was the point of my response in the GP to this post.