Every year, about 15,000 students perform five jumps from a live aircraft before graduating from the United States Army’s Airborne School, each depending on a parachute to get them safely to the ...

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 ...

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 ...