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I'm not sure one could say they are "more dangerous" than hitting the ground at terminal v but there are increased risk with the reserve parachute. The primary reason that it is more dangerous is the interaction with your primary chute. With a primary chute partially inflated a reserve chute can become entangled in the primary causing both to fail. Any "lift" provided by the partially inflated primary will be lost causing the jumper to fall faster. A partially inflated primary may bear the jumper to the ground alive albeit with injury. One way to prevent this is to release the primary "separate it from your harness" using the disconnects before activating your reserve. This places the jumper back into freefall at a lower altitude. Again a failure of the reserve at this point would prove fatal. Suboptimal attachment points on the reserve create increased shock loads on opening due to increased opening velocity, and potentially at irregular body positions.

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