Sentences with phrase «chute fails»

You also don't need a backup parachute when skydiving — but what happens if your main chute fails?

While on a routine parachuting expedition his chute failed to open properly and as he landed he broke his back in three places.

During the Chinese competition, fellow competitor Victor Kovats of Hungary died when his chute failed.

While I applaud all speed in theory, 85 mph is a rate of knots Defenders of yore achieved only when their chutes failed to deploy after they'd been tossed out of airplanes.

Well, yesterday, Clottemans was sentenced to 30 years in prison for tampering with Van Doren's parachute, which the jury found caused Van Doren to plummet to her death when her chute failed to open during the Nov. 18, 2006 jump.

Not exact matches

He and other skyflyers based their spectacular stunts on studies of the science of flight, although in Sohn's case it was technology that failed him: His career as a human bat ended in 1937 after a double chute malfunction in France.

And that's why job boards are broken... by shoe - horning you into the same cattle chute as all the other applicants, job boards fail at the essential task of highlighting your special experience and background.

If you approach your partner with a laundry list of times that they failed to meet your needs, you will follow your laundry down the chute.