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Skydiving: Skydiver Has Hard Premature Parachute Opening While Freeflying

Posted: 17 May 2019 09:17 AM PDT

What happened? A skydiver has a snappy premature parachute opening at 7,000 feet while back-flying on a 2-way freefly jump. Ouch! 😲 Luckily the other jumper wasn’t above him or that he wasn’t flying head down when the premie occured. Why did this happen? The rig was inspected and nothing noticeable was found, so perhaps...
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Skydiving: Skydiver’s Handle Caught On Helicopter, Reserve Parachute Deploys While Ha

Posted: 17 May 2019 09:17 AM PDT

What happened? While climbing down to hang from the helicopter strut, a skydiver’s D-ring got caught on the strut and it deployed the reserve pilot chute while she was still hanging under the heli! It’s hard to communicate under a noisy helicopter through full-face helmets, so it took a few seconds to process the seriousness...
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