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by whyaduck 2429 days ago
What's "a little extra risk"? A 5% chance you'll die? 1%? 0.1%? Compared to what? Those are actually very large risks when the cost is your life. When the survival rate of using CAPS is an order of magnitude (or more) safer? Use the chute. Not to mention how bad a decision it would be to dead stick if there are passengers on board.
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> When the survival rate of using CAPS is an order of magnitude (or more) safer?

    [citation needed]
13:1 better survivability with CAPS deployed:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28539144