Similar stuff really happened with Hungarian pilots over Russia, here is the story:
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..."On 1st February, 1944 his swarm had a fierce dogfight against 5 GvIAP’s La-5’s, led by Witalii Popkov over the Korssun kettle. One La-5 hit his plane, and the Messer’s engine failed. Debrődy had to make his second belly-landing behind the enemy lines! His best friend, 2nd Lt. Miklós Kenyeres with 19 air victories, downed Debrődy’s attacker, and landed near the dead Messer on the snowy and icy unknown field. Some Soviet soldiers were running towards the Messers, but Kenyeres managed to take off with some PPS machine-pistol hits in his plane. Unfortunately, two days later the Soviet AA fire downed Kenyeres’ plane behind the enemy lines and this brave pilot had to bail out over a forest. Debrődy was desperately circling around his parachute, but he was not able to help his friend, Kenyeres taken POW."...
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I actually read a book written by Tibor Tobak (Hungarian "Puma" pilot) an the story is fleshed out with more detail, the downed pilot sat on the other pilot's lap, they had to leave the canopy open (in the icy russian winter) to be able to fit in the small 109 cockpit. The landing was difficult due to the actual pilot did not see forward so the pilot sitting on his lap "talked him down", this is especially tricky due to the hard ground handling characteristic of the 109. Great story...