Pardazi, a philosophy student at the University of Toronto, had opened her parachute too late during her dive.
Skydive Toronto said in a statement posted to Facebook that Pardazi “released a quickly rotating main parachute at a low altitude without the time/altitude required for the reserve parachute to inflate.”
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I thought for a first dive, they attached a static line to ensure the ripcord was pulled as you exit the plane? Apparently not.
Not if you’re a TikTok influencer, apparently...
That was the case where I made my few jumps. The first three were static-line jumps at 2500 feet, then a couple where you’d jump, extend into an arch, and immediately pull the ripcord (hop & pop), then gradually increasing periods of free fall. The instructors would decide what a student was ready to do.
I don’t know why this Toronto place would do things differently.