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From: jnrees@athena.mit.edu (Jim Rees)
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Subject: Re: Near Accident...
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.213029.20717@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 91 21:30:29 GMT
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In article <8bt3JYm00V86NdvX4E@andrew.cmu.edu> bb1v+@andrew.cmu.edu (Barry Lowell Brumitt) writes:
>---
>Talking to Person 2 afterward, it was decided that he must have brushed
>against the side of the plane, releasing his pin, and letting the bag
>drop out of the container. He said that he immediately let go, and when he was
>stuck hanging, cut away.
>
....
>1) If Person 2 had an RSL there is a good chance his reserve would
>have deployed into the mess on the plane.

I don't really see this at all.  If I understand this correctly, he
was hanging below the step suspended by his tangled main.  If he had
an RSL, then upon cutting away he would have a reserve deployment
similar to a static-line assist deployment.  If the plane wasn't
flying level, then *maybe* the reserve pilot chute could get wrapped
up on something.  Otherwise, I don't think a reserve entanglement is
probable.

			Jim Rees
			D-13359