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Skydiving Altitude Awareness Fail, Double Cypres Fire

submitted by Aard Vark

(oritteropo)
1 decade ago

Novice Skydivers were having so much fun they forget to pull their parachutes. Their AADs kicked in by firing a razor blade that deploys their reserve chutes.

(via LiveLeak

YouTube Description:

If you can’t be bothered to check your alti at least once or don’t notice ground rush below 1,000 feet, then you should sell your rig and take up bowling or knitting. Unfortunately there’s no cure for stupid, but luckily there are AADs, and the double Cypres fire is what saved both of their asses. I especially love the altitude awareness once he lands. Yes, sir, you are at zero feet. Oh, and the icing on the cake: they found both free bags… tangled together.