If I had an engine failure in something with a chute especially over the Blue Mountains, I would not hesitate to deploy it. It's tiger country out there, not very many options for a forced landing so I'm pretty sure they didn't have much choice.
So you would, without any hesitation, just simply pull the ripcord and forget about what mayhem and carnage you might cause from your totally random and uncontrolled impact in a semi-populated area??
Wow....
