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MSP: McConkey Never Threw His Chute

By Tim Mutrie

Friday, March 27, 2009

Both skis, not just one, failed to release as Shane McConkey had planned. McConkey eventually managed to jetison the skis manually—during some 12 seconds of freefall—but by then it was too late. "When he finally got turned around to throw the chute he hit the ground," Scott Gaffney told ESPN Action Sports today based on further discussions with McConkey's friends and crew in Italy who reviewed footage of McConkey's accident frame-by-frame in an attempt to decipher what went wrong on Th ...

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