[Viking64]

He was smuggling a chicken.

[SnowBun]

Originally Posted by Ghost ↗

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.

Well sometimes people with parachute fails SURVIVE so this is definitely believable.


HAHA go to this link. This lucky mother fucker fell 6,000 feet, parachute failure, onto the side of a mountain but I think the snow saved him.
Also there's a video on the link.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...-survives.html

This lady landed face fucking first and survived, broke about every bone in her face and knocked out her teeth though. That last pic is the DENT she made XD XD XD She even found out she was pregnant in the hospital & the baby made it too :D yaay !

[velocityman3]

Looks like he had a streamer where the container opened the lines stretched but the canopy did not open. More than likely this is a round canopy. He more than likely impacted nearly standing up shattering both of his femurs. With the gear he is in it was probably a jump from under 1,000 feet and most likely 600' or so. You have very little time to react when jumping from this altitude. At terminal you fall 1,000 feet in six seconds and from a military training jump he probably had maybe a few seconds more than that to jump, check for a open canopy and if it failed to open go to the reserve which basically means if it doesn't open right you are fucked.

Other possible cause could have been severe line twists which can also lead to a streamer.

I have been a master rigger for many years and have seen a lot of friends die and have seen multiple deaths on the same day. This is not something that stupid and dumb people should try at all because things happen fast. I have packed tens of thousands of mains and thousands of reserves and never had one fail to open. Military riggers are not nearly as good as a civilian contract rigger, all they care about is getting it all in the bag and I have seen the same rigger kill multiple men in one jump.

I have also done a lot of test jumping for new systems in my day and have the broken bones to prove it. I have jumped as low as 450' with a round on a static line.

[gunit1400]

Originally Posted by wolfcaptian ↗

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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[deadcat1]

Originally Posted by velocityman3 ↗

Looks like he had a streamer where the container opened the lines stretched but the canopy did not open. More than likely this is a round canopy. He more than likely impacted nearly standing up shattering both of his femurs. With the gear he is in it was probably a jump from under 1,000 feet and most likely 600' or so. You have very little time to react when jumping from this altitude. At terminal you fall 1,000 feet in six seconds and from a military training jump he probably had maybe a few seconds more than that to jump, check for a open canopy and if it failed to open go to the reserve which basically means if it doesn't open right you are fucked.

Other possible cause could have been severe line twists which can also lead to a streamer.

I have been a master rigger for many years and have seen a lot of friends die and have seen multiple deaths on the same day. This is not something that stupid and dumb people should try at all because things happen fast. I have packed tens of thousands of mains and thousands of reserves and never had one fail to open. Military riggers are not nearly as good as a civilian contract rigger, all they care about is getting it all in the bag and I have seen the same rigger kill multiple men in one jump.

I have also done a lot of test jumping for new systems in my day and have the broken bones to prove it. I have jumped as low as 450' with a round on a static line.

Ouch!

Yeah, heights and unsecured surfaces and me do not mix well....

planes, ok
tall buildings, ok if no movement felt when wind is whipping past you
elevators, ok as long as no shaky movements...

[Pink_Cocaine666]

this one's just.. oww :(

[joklor33]

[petedeamon]

Full agreement w/ Wolfcaptian. We did most jumps @ 1200-1500 feet and reaction time is critical for survival. Lower jumps make you less of a target and less time to be seen.

[zeb247]

This is why I dont jump out of airplanes or leap off bridges with a cord attached.

[Blu]

Those legs...ouch.