Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: This is the most crucial moment for every student during Airborne School: the moment the parachute deploys after jumping. If anything is wrong with ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. (July 21, 2015) - A red, Paul Bunyan-sized baseball cap marks your entrance into rigger territory, or more specifically, Pack Platoon, 11th Quartermaster Company, 189th Combat Support ...

New reliability data from the parachute industry have persuaded the Federal Aviation Administration that a packed parachute is safe for emergency use longer than previously believed, so the agency ...

British skydiver Clare Barnes' parachute was incorrectly packed - probably by herself - before she plunged 4,300 metres to her death in Victoria, an interim report into the accident found. The 24-year ...