Mistel gun cam footage on youtube.

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Originally Posted by Erkki

He bailed out over a forest.... Some (a lot of) luck and the chute gets stucked in a tree and slows him down. Happened to a lot of people. Looks like he might have missed it and fell in the lake/pond instead though.

dont forget to make correction for perspective of point of view from guncam... maybe it was a water straight below him. i think nobody knows exactly for now.
but anyway terrain under the aircraft is pretty good for jump out at low altitudes. scary, dangerous, but much better than fall on to field or city.

also i discussed about bailouts with some soviet pilots of ww2, they say that almost nobody bails out below 300 meters altitude... so 300 meters was lowest point where chute can success open and fill with air. below this altitude pilots tried to land damaged plane. successfully or not - it is the other question.

in this case we saw that fw190 was all in flames, thats why pilot tried to jump out by all costs (in this case he has some chances to stay alive).