Quote Originally Posted by sinky
I know nothing about skydiving, can someone explain to me how his buddy landed only a few seconds later. How fast can you drop with a "good" chute ?
U can drop just as fast if not a little faster when you are trying to. You just pull a front corner of the canopy down and its a nice controlled dive towards the ground. Then you just come out of it at the last second and your canopy planes out and you land. This guy obviously couldnt do that cause his lines were tangled but if it would have untangled a couple hundred feet from impact he would have had a chance of landing it fine.