The Eloy Police Department said he encountered “unexpected complications” while trying to deploy his parachute, thus resulting in him “hard landing" Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at ...

Eyewitnesses reported that during Bowen's free fall, his parachute did not deploy, and he died from injuries he sustained from the landing. Sedona brothers scammed government out of over $100M in ...

A missing skydiver was found dead over the weekend after his parachute "failed to deploy ... in an area "a couple of miles ...

To see why let's go back to skydiving. If you wanted to slow down to the same landing speed (20 mph) on Mars as on Earth you'd need a parachute that's 10 times wider. Or about 110 feet in diameter.