Bond conundrum

So you are James Bond and you have just saved the world again at the end of Thunderball. You are lying on a life raft with the gorgeous woman you have just saved from a cruel fate. You inflate a helium balloon at the end of a long rope and attach the rope to a harness on your wetsuit. A large airforce plane with a specially adapted nose flies over and catches the rope, catapulting you and the girl into the air behind the plane at high speed. The end credits roll and the music plays. But: how the hell do Bond and the girl survive this? Think about it - the plane can't land without killing them and they have no parachute or even a way to unhook themselves. Answers on a postcard...