Yesterday another Backfire-related crap, this time very stupid one. Plane commander, an O-4, ejected all three others before starting engines. The ejection seat of a Backfire M3, marked KT-1M, is not Zero-Zero and it takes at least 130 km\h of airspeed to work properly. Net result: a co-pilot and both WSOs dead, hitting concrete with empty chutes. Plane commander on Backfire can eject all crew minus himself by single switch, his own ejection knob is separate one. Plane commander was squadron XO, co-pilot - Regimental CO O-6, Nav was Regimental NAV O-4, ECMO seat occupied staff officer from CBP (something akin to USN FRS), O-5 WSO. So everyone of them was senior to plane commander by post, silly enough. Rumors are that just seconds before accident the plane commander said to tower "I ain't gonna fly with these mother*uckers". If so - I'm scared. After all Backfire fleet went to Air Force from Navy, it became utterly unreliable both technically and humanly...