How can people parachutes not open and yet they escape with only a few broken bo!
Question: How can people parachutes not open and yet they escape with only a few broken bones!?
shouldnt they die on impact if people can die from impact if they fall off a rle tall bridge!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
Hello,
I've done about 300 parachute jumps in my life, mostly free-fall, and I have a class 'D' parachuting certificate, so I feel qualified to answer!.
What happens more commonly than 'no parachute appearing at all,' is what is commonly called a 'bundle of washing!.' That is to say, the parachute comes out of its pack, but it doesn't open out properly, - - it just streams above you like a 'bundle of washing' on its lines!.
Although it doesn't slow you up anything like a properly-opened parachute does, there is often enough drag in the bundle, to slow you down 'enough' for it not to be fatal!. This happened to a friend of mine!.
If you can get your reserve parachute out as well, and in the very unlikely event that this doesn't open properly either, - - you can still get two 'bundles of washing' above you, which gives even more drag through the air!.
If you get a 'total failure,' - - nothing appears at all, like the pack stays shut, - - then unless you can get your reserve parachute out, you've had it!. There are rare cases of surviving a total failure to open, for instance a Russian pilot famously jumped from a burning plane with no parachute and survived unhurt during the 2nd World War!. He hit the side of a long snow-covered slope, also covered in pine trees all covered in snow !.!.!. so he didn't come to a sudden stop!. It's the very sudden stop that kills, like when you hit a tree in your car!.
The previous answerer is correct, - - you reach about 120 mph after 12 seconds of free-fall, and then you don't go any faster, (because of the wind resistance buoying you up)!. But parachutists have no special protection and can die after falling from a ladder, like anyone else!.
When I was in the british parachute brigade, they taught me how to 'roll' after a parachute landing, and this does help a bit in the case of a very hard landing!. But not at 'terminal velocity' 120mph, obviously!.
I hope this is of some help!.
Belliger (retired Lt!. Colonel, british armed forces)Www@Answer-Health@Com
I've done about 300 parachute jumps in my life, mostly free-fall, and I have a class 'D' parachuting certificate, so I feel qualified to answer!.
What happens more commonly than 'no parachute appearing at all,' is what is commonly called a 'bundle of washing!.' That is to say, the parachute comes out of its pack, but it doesn't open out properly, - - it just streams above you like a 'bundle of washing' on its lines!.
Although it doesn't slow you up anything like a properly-opened parachute does, there is often enough drag in the bundle, to slow you down 'enough' for it not to be fatal!. This happened to a friend of mine!.
If you can get your reserve parachute out as well, and in the very unlikely event that this doesn't open properly either, - - you can still get two 'bundles of washing' above you, which gives even more drag through the air!.
If you get a 'total failure,' - - nothing appears at all, like the pack stays shut, - - then unless you can get your reserve parachute out, you've had it!. There are rare cases of surviving a total failure to open, for instance a Russian pilot famously jumped from a burning plane with no parachute and survived unhurt during the 2nd World War!. He hit the side of a long snow-covered slope, also covered in pine trees all covered in snow !.!.!. so he didn't come to a sudden stop!. It's the very sudden stop that kills, like when you hit a tree in your car!.
The previous answerer is correct, - - you reach about 120 mph after 12 seconds of free-fall, and then you don't go any faster, (because of the wind resistance buoying you up)!. But parachutists have no special protection and can die after falling from a ladder, like anyone else!.
When I was in the british parachute brigade, they taught me how to 'roll' after a parachute landing, and this does help a bit in the case of a very hard landing!. But not at 'terminal velocity' 120mph, obviously!.
I hope this is of some help!.
Belliger (retired Lt!. Colonel, british armed forces)Www@Answer-Health@Com
If you fall through the air you don't go faster and faster, you reach a 'terminal velocity' based on your wind resistance!. Skydivers know how to dive faster or slower by how they hold their bodies, but if your parachute doesn't open you're flailing around so you're not falling as fast!. Maybe 75 or 80 mph!.
Then it depends on how fast you stop!. If you fall in heavy snow, for instance, it can cushion your fall!. If you fall through trees, branches can slow you down!. Or if you land on a steep slope!.
If you fall in mud, too!. Of more than 1000 people who have jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge, there have been two or three who survived, and they all fell in mud at low tide!.
It doesn't happen very often, conditions have to be just right!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Then it depends on how fast you stop!. If you fall in heavy snow, for instance, it can cushion your fall!. If you fall through trees, branches can slow you down!. Or if you land on a steep slope!.
If you fall in mud, too!. Of more than 1000 people who have jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge, there have been two or three who survived, and they all fell in mud at low tide!.
It doesn't happen very often, conditions have to be just right!.Www@Answer-Health@Com