When ballistic chutes go wrong...

[TangoWhiskey]

Check out what happens at the end of this video. OUCH.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk-psmXzYCE

 

[tonycondon]

ouch!!!

 

[ScottM]

WOW! I guess sometimes it is safer to not have a chute

 

[jesse]

When my dad bought an ultralite when I was younger the first thing that came off was the chute. He had a fear of it going off ..kinda like that.

 

[deafsound]

Man that hurts.

 

[Teller1900]

Ya, that's bad in like 8 different ways. Ow.

 

[bbchien]

Oh, c__p.

 

[ScottM]

First you say the word

Oh, c__p.

Then you DO the word

And then it did not matter if you followed you mom's advice, concering clean under clothes, prior to going flying.

 

[KennyFlys]

Oweee!

 

[AWACSEng]

If that happened to me, I would kick whoever packed the chute square in the jimmy. If I packed the chute, I would kick myself then.

 

[terzap]

Uh...is the pilot OK?

 

[KennyFlys]

Uh...is the pilot OK?

Probably just bruises. I've fallen that far out of a tree as a kid. He looked to be caged enough between the wing carriage above and nose ahead of him.