Don’t quote me on this, but it seems I’ve read stories about skydivers surviving when their parachute failed to deploy. Of course if it deploys partially, that would be a factor. Anyone have any info on that scenario?
“Don’t quote me on this, but it seems I’ve read stories about skydivers
surviving when their parachute failed to deploy.”
FR archiving to the rescue!
Below is a link to a thread on the topic. Also note the URL in the
first post; it leads to more reference on the subject, including
the story of the fellow that survived a fall from a bomber in WWII.
That story got at least one thread on FR a few years back.
I do seem to remember two other stories: one was a young lady that
survived a partially-deployed chute, landed (IIRC) face down on
a parking lot with some obvious fractures. But she survived and got
patched up “near as new”. And happily discovered she’d was “just
pregnant” at the time of the fall; eventually delivered a healthy baby.
I think that was in Oklahoma.
I did also see a film clip of someone surviving a streaming chute;
I’m sure the ground-level videographer thought...”well, that will
help the local coroner close this case after one view of this clip”.
But the guy went into some sort of boggy area and survived with some
injuries.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1784379/posts