Your guy might break out of a POW camp but, alas, not from prison. New pilot time. It happens a lot as it is really easy to get shot down. I think that using CM11, (if one is pre Win7) one can resurrect your pilot. I once shot down an enemy aircraft and some rooky pilot flew into my bullet stream and was killed. One burst, two planes shot down; one friendly. Well, the war was nearly over so I wasn't in jail long and my imagination tells me that the revolution freed me. .