Paratrooper Has UNLUCKIEST Exit Ever Recorded--Just Sickening

Most aircraft have a parachutist retrieval system but If you don't have that, do your best to pull him in. There should be crew chiefs and safeties on board to help. Situations like these should be presented during the pilot brief.

Last resort, assuming he is still conscious, climb 500 ft and cut his static line. He would have to be conscious in order to pull his reserve. Something is obviously wrong and preventing his main parachute from deploying. He was lucky the guy behind him exiting didn't hit him on the way out.

Glad I have never experienced being a towed jumper.

One: when presented with a perfectly good airplane, I don't jump out. When presented with a USAF or US Army bird, I almost always jump out.

Second: that guy did what he was supposed to do. He is conscious and trying to maintain proper body positioning and it really does look like he's protecting his reserve, so good on 'im.

Third: now you just hope the OTHER guys are as well trained and know how to handle a fully conscious towed jumper, AND that the towed jumper remembers to pull his reserve (seems like that would be high up on his list of things "to-do" after he feels himself falling free) when they cut him loose.

Fourth: Baaaaad day.

Full recovery. But he spun for ~30 seconds. That would suck.