The TV News said that the pilot managed to eject after the explosion while the co-pilot failed to do so.
It was also mentioned that the survivor sustained "major injuries".

Kinda' reminds of the mid-air collision 'tween an XB-70 and a chase plane back in the '60's.

According to an article I read afterwards the pilot stated their ejection 'capsules' had to slide forward on rails in order to eject.
His capsule worked OK while the co-pilots got jammed due to a rail that had presumably gotten bent as a result of the collision. Therefore that capsule never made it into position to eject.

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On Sat, 11/1/14, Jim Catchpole <jlcatchpole@googlemail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] 'Rocket Science' gets even 'harder'!
 To: tml@simplelists.com
 Date: Saturday, November 1, 2014, 11:48 AM

     The radio
 transcript from the rescue
       team released today mentioned a parachute and checking
 a second
       location after finding one crewmember dead in the
 wreckage. Sounds
       like he bailed out somehow.

       On 01/11/2014 18:22, Knapp wrote:

               Certainly.  Or, to look at it another way,
 the first crash
               landing of

               a spacecraft where someone survived.

                   --

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 Morgan

              I would really like to know how he
 survived!

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