RAF veteran John Nichol's life-saving decision to eject from burning Tornado jet
659Former RAF navigator John Nichol has described the moment he and his pilot John Peters ejected from their Tornado jet after they were shot down at the start of the First Gulf War in 1991.
The two men survived and went on to endure being beaten and tortured, with images of them, following their brutal treatment at the hands of their captors, broadcast around the world.
Surviving such an ordeal owed much to their incredible resilience but, the fact that their lives were saved at all is largely a result of the ejection seat technology that blasted them out of the cockpit at 200mph.
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