AMAZING PHOTOS: Pilot ejects an instant before fighterjet crashes.

UPDATE: Reader Stephen Hill writes: “The pictures ARE amazing, and in one regard more than anything else: the first photo in the sequence illustrates how miraculous technology is getting – in this case in the form of the 0-0 ejection seat. The canopy is not even out of frame yet, and the seat has already oriented its passenger vertically, despite having fired out of a cockpit pointed at the ground.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Video.