The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has released the results of its investigation into the fatal crash of a glider near Diamond Valley in May 2024.

Questions over the deployment of a parachute were cited by a federal investigation into the fatality of a Calgary glider ...

He said the soldier had to "brake hard" to land on Mr Purja's slower-moving parachute, causing both canopies to collapse. Mr Pegg said: "It is more likely than not that it was not planned for Dean ...

The T-11 system includes the main canopy and harness and the T-11R reserve parachute. • Carries a paratrooper with a total exit weight of 400 lbs. • Reduces jumper injury rate by over 75 ...

so he started sewing his own canopies. Steering a parachute involves pulling on a pair of brake lines, one for each side of the parachute. A control stroke of about 20 cm was required, and [Yohan ...

A report from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada has provided insight into a fatal glider crash near Diamond Valley in ...

An accident investigation team found that the lines to the main canopy were tangled and two links connecting the reserve parachute's canopy to the harness had been removed. The court was played a ...

JAN 4, 1912: Reckless inventor Franz Reichelt was filmed jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower after testing the world’s first parachute suit on this day in 1912. The 33-year-old Austrian-born ...