[THECLUTCH]

Originally Posted by CombatVet ↗

Certainly, several reasons actually. The first is the amount of time to deploy a reserve and the limitations on the equipment. During a static line jump we are taught immediately upon exiting to count to 4 thousand and then check for a canopy. 4 seconds after jumping and youre more than halfway to the ground. The reserve itself is a smaller parachute but otherwise not modified to deploy any quicker and doesnt have the benefit of being attached by a static line.

This jump actually took place at an altitude (1200 ft AGL) that is about 20-30% higher than typical airborne operations (800ft AGL) but after 5-6 seconds after leaving the bird, look at how little time he would have had to save his life by deploying a reserve.

The #1 thing that is emphasized in jump school (and this cannot be emphasized enough) is that your hand is kept on your reserve at all times when in the aircraft to prevent deployment but mainly to become muscle memory that your hand is to be on your reserve at all times. The fact that he did not pull his reserve is extremely remarkable to me which I believe didn't happen either due to lack of training (he likely had less than 10 jumps total being a cadet) or its even possible that they didn't have one to begin with. There are some countries that do not jump with reserve parachutes.

Full streamers like that as so rare and strictly a result of a bad pack job. I mean theyre so rare that occurences of them are almost unheard of. The rigger's information is somewhere on that parachute and I would imagine that theyll find that the person that packed the chute was relatively new. No experienced rigger would have made that big of an error as to cause a streamer like that.

this procedure used for military in the world

[Omegas3]

He hit the Yamcha.

[capratt]

Thud

[NottheFace]

Reminds me of Pilot Wings when you don't open the chute in time.

[submarginal]

Wowwwww

[DaDawg911]

I thought they would have just left the parachute over the dude's face and body out of dignity, but it was very nice of that girl to uncover that from him so all of us could see his dead corpse.

Bravo!

[XxsithlordxX]

Kudos to the cameraman!

[dwizzy22]

Originally Posted by gimlet ↗

Survivable? I read about a skydiver with no chute landing in a muddy swamp flat and surviving. Seems possible if the ground was a bit more forgiving, especially as the unfurled chute seemed to slow him a bit...

It’s bullshit.
You cannot survive no matter what.
Your organs are still travelling at speed when you impact no matter what you land on.
Unless it’s a giant net like that dude did.

[King Herald]

Originally Posted by dwizzy22 ↗

It’s bullshit.
You cannot survive no matter what.
Your organs are still travelling at speed when you impact no matter what you land on.
Unless it’s a giant net like that dude did.

120mph is about the slowest you can free fall, in a proper prone position arms and legs used for steerage and control.
If you end up falling head first, or feet first, you can reach up to 200mph.

The guy in the video was trailing a half opened bag of rag, so he was probably falling a fair bit slower, and feet first. But still dead on impact.

[mparryuk52]

Imagine if his autopsy was available - there would likely just be mush inside. Poor fucker.