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Old 28th Jun 2021, 22:57
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Wizofoz
 
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Just speculation, but skydivers have a culture of being very skittish about aircraft- with some justification given the sh1t-boxes often used for skydiving. I know people who've exited at 500' because an engine burped.

MAYBE the "difficulty" involved something audible to do with an engine, and a jumper deciding he wanted to be under his parachute. If so, awful that a passenger was also subject to that decision.

Another factor is that jumpers are supposed to use single-point restraints in the aircraft- I've seen exactly one person do so- a CASA inspector!! The fact that this is a requirement that has been routinely ignored and never enforced in decades is a bit of an indictment.
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