• paratrooper plummets to his death after chute gets caught on plane, Video captures last moments
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[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqZlVPkERcI[/media] [quote]A Thai paratrooper tragically plummeted to his death after his parachute got caught on the plane he jumped out of. The video, which went viral recently, shows the sequence of events which unfolded before the fatal fall. The paratroopers jump of the plane in sequence as part of a training exercise. One of them gets his parachute caught on the plane, leaving him hanging in midair as the plane continues soaring through the air.[/quote] [url]http://news.asiaone.com/news/asia/thai-paratrooper-plummets-his-death-after-chute-gets-caught-plane[/url] This is just fucking terrible. :c
Holy shit thats horrifying
My sympathies go out to the family of this poor man. I hope they try and scrape together some compensation money for them.
God, that video looks like a whole lot of people doing nothing to help him.
I wonder if it would have been possible for him to clamber back up the rope had he tried. ):
In Memorium: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWgsdexkv18[/media] This is precisely why I have a tremendous amount of respect for the Airborne of any military. It takes huge brass balls to jump out of a plane, particularly when the end of your controlled fall will likely end in a fight. I could never do that.
couldn't they just pull him back up?
While I haven't personally dropped Personnel yet, I know from training that a Towed Parachutist is a shitty situation all around. There's basically two things that you can do: Cut or retrieve. In this sort of situation, Cut is the best option, since he seems to be conscious. Had they attempted to retrieve him, they'd probably be bringing in a bloody meat puppet from him getting smashed against the side of the plane. So you cut him loose, and just hope he can open his reserve, which sadly, doesn't seem like he was able to. RIP good sir
I wonder if the pilot couldn't try to slow down a bit more, perhaps with help of flaps, and give him a bit better chance at pulling himself up on the rope.
Why doesn't he have a backup parachute? Or was that one also destroyed?
[QUOTE=ViralHatred;42819524]God, that video looks like a whole lot of people doing nothing to help him.[/QUOTE] Idk, if there was really much they could do to help him. The only thing I could think of is trying to get him to grab a rope but I imagine that being terribly difficult especially pulling him up.
[QUOTE=Mandems;42819652]couldn't they just pull him back up?[/QUOTE] I think the sheer amount of force would make it quite hard with no people available. Besides, when they can't reach the sleeve or rope or whatever, I don't think they can get him.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;42819687]I wonder if the pilot couldn't try to slow down a bit more, perhaps with help of flaps, and give him a bit better chance at pulling himself up on the rope.[/QUOTE] That would've probably killed him faster. As plane would drop speed, it would increase turbulence, and the poor fella would be flying all over even more. He's not just stuck, he's hanging on a rope - he could've easily just smashed his head into the side or tail of the plane. They did all they could do, don't doubt that.
[QUOTE=Mandems;42819652]couldn't they just pull him back up?[/QUOTE] Its a plane. Its [b]flying.[/b]
The men in charge of the exercise are well trained, had they been able to do anything, they would have done so. It is not clear if this man had a reserve shoot, one can assume that they all do but it's possible that the reserve shoot had been damaged making his life forfeit from the beginning. There was nothing they could do which is unfortunate.
[QUOTE=gudman;42819736]That would've probably killed him faster. As plane would drop speed, it would increase turbulence, and the poor fella would be flying all over even more. He's not just stuck, he's hanging on a rope - he could've easily just smashed his head into the side or tail of the plane. They did all they could do, don't doubt that.[/QUOTE] They stood there. There is plenty they could have done. The plane should have been flying at a higher altitude so he could have opened his backup chute. Or they could have fed out a pole, or something for him to climb back in on. I'm sure there were ready able people to hold onto the rope or whatever to help him back in. Poor army. Poor man, RIP
[QUOTE=Mandems;42819652]couldn't they just pull him back up?[/QUOTE] Yea let's just grab our stick with a hook on it and pull the man closer to the fuselage possibly knocking him unconscious and making it impossible for him to try and open his reserve shoot when he does fall. Why would a plane have a pole or a stick on board specifically for pulling people back up?
[QUOTE=SatansSin;42819948]They stood there. There is plenty they could have done. The plane should have been flying at a higher altitude so he could have opened his backup chute. Or they could have fed out a pole, or something for him to climb back in on. I'm sure there were ready able people to hold onto the rope or whatever to help him back in. Poor army. Poor man, RIP[/QUOTE] Climb back up, on a pole no less? Are you joking, or have you never heard of inertia? If the guy wanted to climb back up, he would've had to pull three or more times his weight. That is, if they even HAD a pole there, which I doubt they had. Higher altitude, I already said - in order to even hope for this guy to survive, the pilot should've tried to fly with no altitude gain or loss, and with no acceleration/deceleration what so ever. Because otherwise, they would've been stuck scrapping his brains off of plane's covering all day.
[QUOTE=ViralHatred;42819524]God, that video looks like a whole lot of people doing nothing to help him.[/QUOTE] yeah, why didn't they just fly the eagles to mordor?
I have no idea how parachute protocol goes but he looked conscious for a bit; couldn't they have found a way to reel him in? From the camera angle it looks like his chute is stuck to a part of the door.
[QUOTE=aznz888;42820103]I have no idea how parachute protocol goes but he looked conscious for a bit; couldn't they have found a way to reel him in? From the camera angle it looks like his chute is stuck to a part of the door.[/QUOTE] No, they couldn't have. As people have said, it's a plane, it's moving in air, there is turbulence. He would have ended up smashed into the side of the plane. The better option was to cut him loose and hope his reserve opened, especially as he was conscious.
Couldn't they have pulled him in, or had another paratrooper strap onto him and deploy their chutes lower?
[QUOTE=Craigewan;42820383]The better option was to cut him loose.[/QUOTE] I would have thought a parachuter would carry an emergency cutting tool in this kind of event, the people on the plane could do nothing really..
[QUOTE=Craigewan;42820383]No, they couldn't have. As people have said, it's a plane, it's moving in air, there is turbulence. He would have ended up smashed into the side of the plane. The better option was to cut him loose and hope his reserve opened, especially as he was conscious.[/QUOTE] so it's possible his main parachute got caught AND the reserve chute failed to open? youch.
[QUOTE=gudman;42820089]Climb back up, on a pole no less? Are you joking...[/QUOTE] They do it in my American movies!
[QUOTE=Jawyen;42820707]They do it in my American movies![/QUOTE] FIrst thing that crossed my mind as well.
What about going high up in the sky so the speed of the plane goes near zero and he will simply drop back in? wait what
[QUOTE=Dark RaveN;42820804]What about going high up in the sky so the speed of the plane goes near zero and he will simply drop back in? wait what[/QUOTE] Why didn't they just stop the plane? Couldn't pilot just, ya know, hang in up there for a minute?
I'm not sure I understand. My grasp of physics is that if the plane isn't accelerating or decelerating, and it is going as straight as possible, then surely the only addition G forces should be the force of the air flying past the plane at a couple hundred miles per hour? That isn't to say the situation isn't complicated but I don't think pulling him up would be a test of sheer strength (on top of how difficult it is to pull ones own weight vertically at least). [editline]10th November 2013[/editline] This is assuming he didn't have a reserve chute. But it seems that failed too, so he [I]did[/I] have one.
[QUOTE=SatansSin;42819948]They stood there. There is plenty they could have done. The plane should have been flying at a higher altitude so he could have opened his backup chute. Or they could have fed out a pole, or something for him to climb back in on. I'm sure there were ready able people to hold onto the rope or whatever to help him back in. Poor army. Poor man, RIP[/QUOTE] Glad we have a resident expert on this here oh wait
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