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Found a quote. His navigator unfortunately didn't survive.
“It felt like somebody had just hit me with a train,” said Udell. “When I went out into the wind stream, it ripped my helmet right off my head, broke all the blood vessels in my head and face, my head was swollen the size of a basketball and my lips were the size of cucumbers. My left elbow was dislocated and pointed backward, the only thing holding my leg on was an artery, the vein, the nerve and the skin and my left leg snapped at the bottom half.”
To make his story even more incredible it was nightime and over a stormy sea. He had to climb into a life raft with those injuries.
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Nope, but it sounds grisly. Ejection is a fraught business in ‘ideal’ conditions, but you read about crew who have ejected from an SR-71 at Mach 3+ and have to wonder about how they fared, even though they made it out.