General Kenneth Fleenor was flying Migcap over North Vietnam and while chasing a Mig fighter in the weeds (low altitude) his back seater, Terry Boyer, could not get a lock on with a sparrow missile and they were hit by a surface to air missile. The hit was in the engines and immediately one engine failed. While still under power, General Fleenor said he climbed with remaining power until the second engine quit, and when the turbo powered hydraulics failed due to loss of hydraulic fluid, flight controls became useless. The airplane pitched up as the elevator control surface went to the full up position after the loss of hydraulics. At 26,000 feet the airplane went inverted and Fleenor and his back seater punched out.
Fleenor still in his seat after bailing out, the seat stayed attached during free fall to help stabilize the fall, and breathing oxygen from the small oxygen bottle stored in the parachute pack, a small chute deployed to pull the seat section away and at 13,000 feet the main chute deployed.
Fleenor landed around noon local time in a tree over hanging a cliff. He swung over to a large tree limb and unbelted his parachute harness and climbed down the tree. Within an hour, a swarm of local Vietnamese came up the hill he had landed on and captured General Fleenor.