Ejection decision F-111 #usairforce

while conducting high angle of attack tests on an F-111 another pilot was faced with an ejection decision I'm Colonel Pete wyers we were conducting high angle of attack testing on the F-111 on this particular day we were conducting accelerated stalls at 35,000 ft to check the departure characteristics of the airplane we had already conducted one test in which the airplane did depart as predicted and a rolling departure and then recovered rather rapidly we decided to go to our second point the second point was an accelerated stall 2 GS the airplane departed as predicted but then went immediately into a spin I applied the recovery controls and the airplane started to recover we thought we were