British soldier cheats death after smashing through a ROOF and landing in a kitchen when his parachute failed to open fully on training exercise over California The parachutist spiraled out of control during the exercise in Atascadero The British soldier jumped from 15,000ft but his parachute failed to fully deploy The homeowners were out when he crashed through the tiled roof at 5pm He only sustained minor injuries and has been treated in hospital
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A British soldier has cheated death after crashing into someone's roof and falling into their kitchen when his parachute failed to fully deploy during a training exercise in California.
The parachutist jumped out of a plane from 15,000ft in a High Altitude Low Opening exercise known as Halo which is used by the SAS and SBS for covert missions in hostile territory.
But the soldier started to spiral out of control when the parachute failed to fully deploy over the skies of Atascadero.
A British soldier has cheated death after crashing into someone's roof and falling into their kitchen when his parachute failed to fully deploy
He deployed his reserve parachute but it was