Interview with the guy who pulled the ejection cord in the Michigan Mig-23: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftcn3NwAZCI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftcn3Nw

Interview with the guy who pulled the ejection cord in the Michigan Mig-23: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftcn3NwAZCI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftcn3NwAZCI tldr; they were out of airspeed and out of altitude barely within ejection envelope (i.e. exhausted all the options)