The pilot from that video became my squadron commander four or five years after that incident. He was one of the best squadron cc's I ever worked for. He had a great, wide screen perspective. If you screwed something up he'd say, "as long as we don't have to make a safety video, it can't be that bad."

I can think of at least two other guys I've know that have hit trees in F-16s and lived to tell it...some very lucky guys no doubt.