[quote=The Mage]
Also, does anyone know if a fighter pilot can survive a crash?
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It depends very much on the nature of the crash. There are lots of kinds of crashes, and they happen in all manner of terrains and locations, under all sorts of circumstances.
If the crash is at low speed, and under control into soft terrain (more of a crash-landing), and the aircrafts' fuel and ordnance is mostly depleted, then the pilot has a better chance of surviving - though not certain, by any means. The forces involved would likely still result in some quite serious injuries, such as whiplash and spinal injuries especially. Though even that isn't certain.
People survive amazing things. There's a flight attendant who survived a several thousand foot fall with only a broken arm, for example. 
Mostly, it's the circumstances that will affect the survival chances. And 'surviving', and 'surviving to walk away with minimal or no injuries, and a continued flight career' are two different things. 

Even ejecting from an aircraft can result in quite serious injuries itself - you're basically strapping your arse to a rocket being fired off, and accelerating to several hundred miles an hour in second. I believe that anyone who ejects more than three times in their career is disqualified from flight duties, due to the strain it puts on the skeleton. Also, I once heard a [b]rumour[/b] (emphasis mine, for the inevitable gleefully pointing out how wrong/stupid I am ¬.¬) that ejecting actually ends up making you shorter, due to the compression it puts on your spine... 
There's a true story on the 'net somewhere about a Strike Eagle pilot who ejected, and his seat got stuck with his head outside of the cockpit. He managed to fly back to base and even land, but had serious whiplash due to the air blasting him in the neck the whole time.