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TheSavouryRain t1_iqyg06d wrote

"a hard landing"

I guess that's the nice way of saying it.

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Miss_Speller t1_iqytvd8 wrote

I know it sounds euphemistic, but we don't know what kind of malfunction he had. It could be that the parachute opened but fouled somehow, leading to something that could reasonably be called a 'hard landing'. That happened to my brother once; he survived but tore some muscles after a landing that was indeed hard.

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DuelingPushkin t1_iqz7f73 wrote

Not all malfunctions are complete malfunctions. Sometimes you just have an uncontrollable canopy that's diving very fast. So in those cases it's more of a bounce than a splat. So hard landing is appropriate

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