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How's this for an unwelcome surprise?!?!?

The pilot of the F-14B was accidentally ejected from the aircraft during a landing aboard USS John C. Stennis. It's said that the RIO had an older GPS system they used to clip to the handle on top of their console. He hadn't stowed it prior to arrestment and during the violent stop from the hook/wire the GPS system got thrown forward from momentum and hit the pilots rocket motor initiator which bypassed the whole ejection system (pilot never touched the ejection handles ...) Next thing the pilot went THROUGH the canopy! He was recovered from the water by helicopter. Stennis personnel rescued the RIO from the pilotless aircraft as it sat on the flight deck with engines still running. Aircraft was repaired and is back in service.

At the military museum in Hanoi

Russian troops disembark from an Mi-35M 'Hind-E' helicopter gunship

Douglas X-3 Stiletto experimental aircraft. Built in 1952 for the Air Force

The Hughes XH-17 was built in 1952 and still holds the world record for a helicopter with the largest rotor system. It was deemed too bulky and inefficient and only one was built, it was scrapped in 1955

The Nazi Germany Fieseler Fi 103R "Reichenberg" was a V-1 rocket with a pilot. It was produced for attacks in which the pilot was likely to be killed or at best to parachute down at the attack site. The project was discontinued in Oct 1944, having never gone past the testing stage