Go Pro parachute malfunction

[cpxxx]

You might remember my video with the Go Pro and the parachutists. But my Polish friend Kris borrowed it, strapped it to his boot and promptly had a malfunction and cutaway to his reserve all captured on video. The video guy set it to the same music 'Hell Yeah'.

He cutaway really low, 1500 feet. Scary!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEztaYnGWW4&feature=player_embedded

And this is the summary of the year so far.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opPIrEuc3VE

[Tupac]

very cool

[sky25]

Was that a line over malfunction? Hard to tell from the video..

I hate it when that happens.... Only because I have to follow my main canopy down to the ground where ever it decides to land so that I do not lose it.. Had a cutaway several years ago and had to follow the main into the woods . Walked 5 miles back to the main road.. 800 jumps in the military and civilian skydiving with only two cutaways, both due to my own stupidity. ( Bad Packing). ( I probably shouldn't have said that). Blue Skies

[Reschke]

Nice video!

[cpxxx]

Not sure sky25, think it was some form of twist. I'm only the pilot after all. He couldn't get stable and cut away very low. He didn't pack it though. Wasn't his chute. We don't get many mals. One I saw was a student, he cut away very low. I felt sick when I saw it. The boss wasn't impressed and grounded the guy because he left the cutaway so late.

I once had two mals on the same load. It wasn't the 13th. But I banned all thirteenth jokes when I had a mal on the thirteenth load of the day after we made loads of thirteenth jokes on the way up.

I'll ask what the happened.

[The Jekyll]

We performed a jump from a C 47 for Eco veterans and the opening of Band of Brothers at St. Mere Eglis in France in June 2000 (actual opening film of first episode was on Normandy beach that night). I was safety on the jump and as such last person out. I looked down and saw what looked like a dummy with a partial canopy laid out across the ground. My initial thought was geez, the mayor of St. Mere Eglis could have told us he was putting out dummies. As I got lower I realized that was no dummy, Maj. Jim Rice had a malfunction with his main, and was too late on the reserve. There were still 11 stows of line on the bag.
  No lift, full velocity, Maj. Jim Rice survived the malfunction to walk today, albiet with a cane. I salute the French medics who worked hard to save his life as he lie there on the ground. The 82nd jumped in right in behind us for the reunion of the Eco guys. Was a sad, and happy day.