[Ed. – I guess it seemed like a good idea at the time. Apparently the log on the man’s heart-monitor watch (hello?) indicated he was in full tachycardia before the flight even began. This incident must rather obviously have been before the COVID-19 lockdowns started.]
A surprise company outing to an air base caused a 64-year-old French man so much stress that he flung himself from a fighter jet in midair, grabbing the ejector button in a panic and tumbling through the skies above France before landing in a field.
The man had been surprised by employees at his firm, who had organized a joyride in a Dassault Rafale B jet for him as a treat.
But they apparently didn’t know their colleague as well as they thought. Once the man arrived at the Saint-Dizier air base in northeastern France and realized what his co-workers had arranged, he began to feel extremely stressed, according to a fairly remarkable aviation accident report by a French government agency.
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The unnamed man had never expressed any desire to fly in a fighter jet and had no previous military aviation experience, investigators discovered.
