Once on the ground at a jaunty angle the aft thrust spins it anti-clockwise, then it looks like some thrust transfers to the lift fan which spins it clockwise for a bit.
Quite a wild ride for the pilot, and a very good example of a zero-zero ejection seat doing its job.
Can you explain this a bit more ? Does the zero-zero take into consideration the orientation of the pilot ? So as to avoid ejecting into the ground for example.
Edit: Rephrase Question
As far as I'm aware all modern seats can do that. Earlier ones for example could eject at low altitude it there was enough air speed to open the chute and slow the pilot down before landing.
Regarding the other part of your question, I believe some seats can change direction dramatically in flight. For example if the aircraft is in a steep bank the seat can steer to give more height, but I don't know much about those.
https://martin-baker.com/about/ has some information about seats and their history.
edit : In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbMg2pQW924 you can just about see the seat begin to change angle from horizontal to vertical. It's very fast but does seem to be there.
You can see how it’s right when the aircraft regains a flat plane that the ejection happens.
It’s likely a safety mechanism that was triggered.
The headline is poorly worded.
The first sentence of the article is more accurate in stating ‘a pilot was ejected’
