Beware, the following video is quite disturbing, at least from minute 03:50.
It shows the fatal incident occurred to a Thai paratrooper whose chute gets caught on plane while other military safely jump. The doomed soldier remains hooked to the plane for about 3 minutes, before straps fail and he falls into the ground without managing to open a reserve chute.
The plane can be seen turning (most probably returning to the homebase) at a lower speed, but it does not seem to climb to give the soldier enough clearance to open the emergency parachute (if any).
David Cenciotti is a freelance journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written four books.
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