History Main / InconvenientParachuteDeployment

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* FreakierThanFiction for [[http://www.gallagherstory.com/ejection_seat/ Lt. Keith Gallagher, USN]] though at least everyone survived. Lt. Gallagher even finished out his service after returning to flight status.

** In ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'', Bond is captured and sitting in the back of a truck being guarded by two soldiers wearing parachutes. As the truck is driving, Bond's accomplice drives alongside the truck and performs a ShowSomeLeg. While the guards are DistractedByTheSexy, Bond reaches out and yanks the ripcords on the soldiers' chutes. The chutes deploy and the soldiers go flying off the back of the truck.

* In RealLife, if a parachute deploys ''inside'' the jump plane, it is an extremely dangerous situation. The usual procedure is to collect the canopy inside the plane, close the jump door immediately and terminate all jump operations and make an emergency landing.

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-->'''Mater''': Dad-gum!
-->'''Computer''': Gatling gun. Request acknowledged.
-->'''Mater''': Shoot, I didn't mean...
-->''[[[MoreDakka the gatling gun shoots]]]''
-->'''Mater''': Wait, wait! I didn't mean ''that'' kind of shoot!
-->'''Computer''': Correction acknowledged. Deploying chute.
-->''[Mater screams in surprise as the parachute catches the wind and yanks him away]''

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* In ''Film/ScavengerHunt1979'', Henry and his kids are driving along a rural road when the parachute (one of the items in the ScavengerHunt) in the back of the station wagon deploys through the open rear window. This causes the car to slue out of control and winds up stranding them with a flat tyre.

* ''Film/TerminalVelocity1994'': In the final confrontation, after parachuting into a wind farm, Ditch kills the BigBad by pulling his backup chute, sucking him into a turbine.
* ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen''

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode ''[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS3E28TheQuestion The Question]]'', as the ghost of a skydiver tries to chase after Gumball and Darwin, his parachute suddenly deploys to hold him in place.
-->''Oh [[DelayedSafetyFeature NOW]] you're [[BlackComedy working]].''

'''Harley:''' ''(small voice)'' Yes, sir.

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* In his novel ''A Good Clean Fight'', Creator/DerekRobinson has an RAF pilot realizing he must abandon his plane and bale out over the North African desert. The pilot quickly goes through all the drills to unfasten himself from his seat, which involves striking various quick-release buckles securing him in place. As he rolls out of the cockpit and into space, tugging for the ripcord, he realizes... he has also hit the quick-release buckle that was holding his parachute in place. The ripcord still pulls, but the parachute is no longer securely attached to him. As the weight of his body in freefall pulls him out of the harness, the last thing he sees is the parachute opening all by itself and getting further away.

* ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'': When Spidey is dropped from high in the sky by the Vulture, his suit automatically triggers its emergency parachute. Unfortunately for him, he's facing upward with his back pointing towards the ground, meaning the parachute pops out from underneath him. Unable to catch air, it immediately envelops him, causing nearly to drown when he crashes in a lake but can't swim up to the surface through the chute. Also, he forgets to have it reinstalled, resulting in a later mission involving heights putting him in danger of a fatal fall.

* In ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'', Bond is captured and sitting in the back of a truck being guarded by two soldiers wearing parachutes. As the truck is driving, Bond's accomplice drives alongside the truck and performs a ShowSomeLeg. While the guards are DistractedByTheSexy, Bond reaches out and yanks the ripcords on the soldiers' chutes. The chutes deploy and the soldiers go flying off the back of the truck.
* In ''Film/DieAnotherDay'', Bond kills Gustav Graves by pulling the cord on his chute, which yanks him out of the damaged plane and [[TurbineBlender into the engine.]]

* ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'': When Spidey is dropped from high in the sky by the Vulture, his suit automatically triggers its emergency parachute. Unfortunately for him, he's facing upward with his back pointing towards the ground, meaning the parachute pops out from underneath him. Unable to catch air, it immediately envelops him, causing nearly to drown when he crashes in a lake but can't swim up to the surface through the chute. Also, he forgets to have it reinstalled, resulting in a later mission involving heights putting him in danger of a fatal fall.
* ''Film/TerminalVelocity1994'': In the final confrontation, after parachuting into a wind farm, Ditch kills the BigBad by pulling his backup chute, sucking him into a turbine.
* In ''Film/{{Skyscraper}}'', one of the BigBad's goons gets taken out at the climax when [[TheHero Will Sawyer]] opens his parachute and he's dragged out of The Pearl through one of the holes the villains' indiscriminate use of grenades have opened up on the VR gallery penthouse.
* In ''Film/ScavengerHunt1979'', Henry and his kids are driving along a rural road when the parachute (one of the items in the ScavengerHunt) in the back of the station wagon deploys through the open rear window. This causes the car to slue out of control and winds up stranding them with a flat tyre.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode ''[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS3E28TheQuestion The Question]]'', as the ghost of a skydiver tries to chase after Gumball and Darwin, his parachute suddenly deploys to hold him in place.
-->''Oh [[DelayedSafetyFeature NOW]] you're [[BlackComedy working]].''

* ''VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram'': An unfortunately frequent occurrence when parachutes aren't properly staged or the player has triggered them at inappropriate times. For example, deploying main chute before deploying a drogue chute might cause the main chute to wrench off due to it being unable to handle the greater air forces at higher velocity.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In "Harlequinade", Batman and Harley Quinn are [[EnemyMine working together]] to stop the Joker from nuking the city. Harley decides she wants to listen to the radio and pushes a button that activates the Batmobile's parachute.

* In his novel ''A Good Clean Fight'', Creator/DerekRobinson has an RAF pilot realising he must abandon his plane and bale out over the North African desert. The pilot quickly goes through all the drills to unfasten himself from his seat, which involves striking various quick-release buckles securing him in place. As he rolls out of the cockpit and into space, tugging for the ripcord, he realises... he has also hit the quick-release buckle that was holding his parachute in place. The ripcord still pulls, but the parachute is no longer securely atttached to him. As the weight of his body in freefall pulls him out of the harness, the last thing he sees is the parachute opening all by itself and getting further away.

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* In ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'', Bond is captured and sitting in the back of a truck being guarded by two soldiers wearing parachutes. As the truck is driving, Bond's accomplice drives alongside the truck and performs a ShowSomeLeg. While the guards are DistractedByTheSexy, Bond reaches out and yanks the ripcords on the soldiers' chutes. The chutes deploy and the soldiers go flying off the back of the truck.

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* In his novel ''A Good Clean Fight'', Creator/DerekRobinson has an RAF pilot realising he must abandon his plane and bale out over the North African desert. The pilot quickly goes through all the drills to unfasten himself from his seat, which involves striking various quick-release buckles securing him in place. As he rolls out of the cockpit and into space, tugging for the ripcord, he realises... he has also hit the quick-release buckle that was holding his parachute in place. The ripcord still pulls, but the parachute is no longer securely atttached to him. As the weight of his body in freefall pulls him out of the harness, the last thing he sees is the parachute opening all by itself and getting further away.

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* In ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'', Bond is captured and sitting in the back of a truck being guarded by two soldiers wearing parachutes. As the truck is driving, Bond's accomplice drives alongside the truck and performs a ShowSomeLeg. While the guards are DistractedByTheSexy, Bond reaches out and yanks the ripcords on the soldiers' chutes. The chutes deploy and the soldiers go flying off the back of the truck.
* In ''Film/DieAnotherDay'', Bond kills Gustav Graves by pulling the cord on his chute, which yanks him out of the damaged plane and [[TurbineBlender into the engine.]]
* ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen''
** Jetfire accidentally deploys his vehicle mode's parachute, causing him to fall on his back. This is played as the robot equivalent of flatulence.
** Galloway misinterprets protocols on how to deploy his parachute as actually instructing him to do so. He pulls the cord too early and gets sucked out of the plane as his parachute opens up.