Calm down Tupac, the story is not even a day old. Not even the investigators on site know what happened yet, this may not be anything like the Miramar situation.
It's just as likely that the pilot and backseater where in a situation where the aircraft was going in whether they stayed with it or not.
Fighter pilots don't take ejecting from an aircraft lightly. An interesting statistic I heard the other day from a friend who was an Air Force F4 pilot is that in combat areas F4 ejections had a 95% survival rate, while in non-combat/peacetime only 80%. The reasoning behind the statistics is that there is no negative stigma attached to bailing out of a plane that is all shot to hell in a warzone, fact is they will likely pin a medal on your chest for it. But if you're bailing out in peacetime odds are it's because you screwed something up and rather then get a medal you're likely to lose your job and be publicly humiliated, and so you're more likely to hang with it longer, sometimes too long.
