Skydiving Parachutes Have Backup Brain

A main parachute fails in about 1 out of every 1,000 skydiving jumps. That is why almost every rig includes an automatic activation device, or AAD, which automatically deploys the reserve parachute if a jumper falls too fast or gets too low. In 2024, the reported skydiving fatality rate was just 0.00023%.

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