parachuting from a malaysian 777 ?, page-16

"i just thoought that if the hijacker with the homemade parachute could do it then maybe a professional seal team ,sas .russian special forces type might be able to do it..."

Have you ever seen or read about someone exit a jet aircraft from side doors special forces or not, let alone one as large as a 777 and survive?

Why special forces use rear exit aircraft. Probably the only jet aircraft possible to skydive from would be 727 since it has a rear exit door.

There good reason why military aircraft of that size, B1, B52 have ejection seats for crew and they don't just attempt to exit out of a side door, simply because it's not survivable unless they did it in a capsule of some sort.

Homemade harness and chute, great idea but building one to withstand the wind speed required of 200-250mph would likely mean you'd end up with package heavier and larger then a production unit with no advantage other then being able to say you built it yourself.

High end skydive packages (military or civilan) are designed to withstand speeds of around 300mph above that it will likely fail. Over 300mph you'd be killed instantly anyway unless you have very specialised kit.

Average skydiver including military your reaching freefall speeds of around 120-140mph. Experts with special training/technique can reach speeds around 180mph maybe over 200mph.

Without advanced specialised equipment (pressurised suit/space suit, full helmet etc) and training you can't exceed 300mph.



Kat.