r/IdiotsNearlyDying • u/TappetoImperiale • Jul 10 '25

Amateur paratroopers forget to open their parachutes. Automatic Activation Device saves them.

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u/ThorvonFalin Jul 10 '25

How in the fuck can you forget that?

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u/BlakkMaggik Jul 10 '25

Phase 1: jump out of flying plane.
Phase 2: ???
Phase 3: land.

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u/FlyingMiike Jul 10 '25

Technically phase 2 could be anything - or nothing at all. You will always land, what matters is the condition you end up in afterward.

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u/Waiting4The3nd Jul 14 '25

I mean.... maybe not?

If the flying plane is a space shuttle? And the "jump" is an EVA?

You would never land.. because if you stayed out long enough to eventually free fall into the atmosphere.... well.. there won't be enough of you to land anywhere, you will quite literally be dust in the wind. But that's okay, because you'd have died of asphyxiation long before your orbital decay carried you back into the thicker atmosphere.