Friday Freakout: Skydiver Has Premature Parachute Opening While Exiting Plane
Subscribe here for more aerial awesomeness from Teem Forlicensing, usagepleasecontact and reference CS000399 What happened While setting up in the door, this belly group had 3 people outside plus a videographer. As the center float gave the updownout count, he rubbed up against the front floats hacky which pulled the pilot chute out of the BOC and deployed the main canopy. Fortunately no one was entangled with the premature opening and he was clear of the plane. Why did it happen Multiple Factors A wellknown, highly experienced belly flyer and coach examined this video and provided us a variety of minor issues that contributed to this incident. They believe it wasnt a single one of the following issues (see below) but rather the fact that they all coalesced during a single jump. These factors include the way jumpers line up and the timing of the
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