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Originally posted by jas1552
It also say in the article that reserve chutes fail half the time they're used. Wtf is up with that?
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I do not know what the actual percentage of falilure is for reserve chutes but the reasons for a reserve "failing" are varied...and it is not really accurate to say they "failed".
More often than not there is not a complete malfunction of the main chute to deploy and more often than not if one has a semi-malfunction of the main then there is not enough decent speed to actually inflate the deployed reserve...so you will have a hard landing.