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02-13-2011, 10:37 AM
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Re: Failure Of Parachute
Possibly kelly and the resulting ruptured leg looks like something that could have been caused by a high impact landing but wouldn't there be more trauma hitting the ground at terminal velocity? I remember seeing the pic of the young guy's whose parachute got sabotaged, he landed in a muddy field too and there wasn't much left of him. Perhaps his uniform and helmet helped hold him together but I'm not 100% convinced. |
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02-13-2011, 11:28 AM
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Re: Failure Of Parachute
Speaking as an ex-paratrooper, that looks about right to me. I've seen it at close range. The resulting damage would depend on 2 things: height at jump, and what you hit. This looks like a military jump, that would be between 500 to maybe 1500 feet (not like skydiving or a H.A.L.O/H.A.H.O jump.) I'd say dude jumped from about 1000ft, something happened to him and he was unable to deploy his reserve (on his chest) and bounced. His main(chute) was prob. not fully deployed (tangled maybe?) but still slowed him down enough that he diden't hit at terminal velocity, thus no big "kersplat." |
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02-13-2011, 12:58 PM
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Re: Failure Of Parachute
Yeah i think you got that right  ...I saw a video once where the parachute was part open but tangled, the whirling of the shoot slowed the guy down quite a bit but not enough to stop terrible damage from the landing.
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