Jamie Hull

It was fourth degree on both legs.

So my tibia bone, that's the shin bone, was exposed from depth of burn.

And if you like the severity of burn,

so much so that both tibia bone was exposed on both sides.

Now that tells you that my shins took an absolute battering.

The upper body, so face, neck, scalp was still burned, but not so bad.

It was bad on one side, but not so hideously burned as the lower limb.

My rationale on this is that I was in such a desperate situation, firing the cockpit at altitude, that

there was nowhere to go.

The only option I had was to try to steer the aircraft in, shut the aircraft down, steer it in, and then set myself up for exit, which is exactly what I did next.

So having shut the aircraft down, I removed the headset, threw it in the opposite footwell, opened the left-hand canopy door, and unbuckled my harness.

And then I was able to clamber onto the seat, very low level, having judged it purely by eye, so hand-eye coordination, if you will,

and then watch the altitude as I'm coming in just by good old-fashioned mark one eyeball to study, you know, distance from height above ground, in other words.

So as I'm still dropping, you know, 200 feet, 100 feet, 50 feet, 40 feet, 30 feet, 20 feet, I was like Jack Rabbit.

At 20 feet, I knew that was me.

Onto the seat, it was my only chance.

clamber over through the open door aperture because i've already opened the door unbuckled the harness get onto the left wing feet shoulder width apart approximately and then i just went for it i just took a giant leap from the trailing edge of the back wing snap my feet and knees together in the air clap my hands above my head in the jump and i went for it and i made the jump i got away with that stunt by the absolute skin of my teeth

I'm hanging on for every thread of life that I can possibly muster.

Every fight that I have ever had, I'm talking about the Cambrian patrols, the P Company, Special Forces selection, nothing came close to how hard I had to hold on

There was a switch in my mind, you know, cognitively speaking.