It's happened more often than you'd think. Usually there is something that makes it happen, like falling through tree branches or into something like a snow bank, but it happens enough that it pops up in trivia from time to time.

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Kitathalla 8 points 2 years ago

The amount of scathing that a canopy company gets when a skydiver hits hard is particularly dependent on their quality. Most of us who skydive read the death/injury reports regularly, and when the equipment was at fault it (the report) gets nasty. Here's a link if anyone is curious to read through some of them. The majority are going to be the fault of the loon jumping out of a plane, but every now and then you'll see an equipment failure. Most of those, even, are due to poor maintenance and upkeep, not manufacturer sleaziness.

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prole 1 point 2 years ago

Too bad it takes people literally falling out of the sky and dying in order to amass the data to know its dangerous. Too bad it's impossible to prevent that through regulation, I'm told.

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Akasazh 7 points 2 years ago

I'm in the market for a golden one, I've heard they are really good.

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milicent_bystandr 3 points 2 years ago

I heard they're unethical. Made with slave labour or something.

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InputZero 4 points 2 years ago

Depends on the size. A 65 year old who's been working hard their whole life might get a small golden parachute and those ones are less unethical. CEOs and world leaders get the enormous golden chutes and there is no way to make one of those without child labour, slave labour, and other forms of exploitation.

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Jayve 6 points 2 years ago

If a parachute fails due to manufacturing defects, wouldn't that be bad news?

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Coreidan 14 points 2 years ago

The joke is that the person with a failed shoot dies and therefore can’t leave a review.

Yup, it’s a dumb joke.

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ICastFist 5 points 2 years ago

Same applies to coffin companies. Not a single user came back to complain.

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nomecks 6 points 2 years ago

Parachutes are not scientificaly proven to reduce skydiving deaths. There's never been a double blind study done.

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