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"no life threatening injuries", but notably did not walk away from the crash. There's a lot in between those two.



I you watch the video of a previous CAPS landing over water, the landings can still be a bit rough:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBCUQlF3MMU

But obviously 10x better than the alternative.


> One occupant was seriously injured, and two of the three occupants received minor injuries.

https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20220909-...


Looking at those photos, it seems likely the injury was probably because a tree branch probably smashed through the cabin.

Not really the parachutes fault...


That’s a cool website, summary, sources, and accessible data…


so, not a good landing if the definition of a good landing is any landing you can walk away from


Two out of three people walked away.




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