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Kitathalla@lemy.lol 18 hours 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)[www.uspa.org/searchincidentreports] 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.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
Too bad it takes people literally falling out of the sky and dying in order to amass the data to know its dangerous.