Originally Posted by
stevef
From Dropzone:
Less than a third of the men reached the agreed rendezvous point, with some of them literally scraped to death along the desert floor because they couldn't unclip their parachutes.
I should have done some research before I posted my comment about releasing their harnesses.
So this was before parachute harnesses had a QRB, then? That makes sense, as I remember being told something about pulling one set of risers to get the canopy to collapse if the QRB jammed. No idea if that's correct, it was a long time ago when I did the one-off jump, around 1978 or 79 I think.