On Monday, October 13, 2014 8:49:35 AM UTC-7, Frank Whiteley wrote:
On Monday, October 13, 2014 7:06:06 AM UTC-6, Waveguru wrote:

There was also an accident a couple of years ago in Montana where the rear passenger was killed after his shoulder straps broke. I immediately replaced mine after that, even tho they looked pretty good.



Both front and rear shoulder straps failed in that accident.

http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/Ge...11LA317&rpt=fa

...and also reinforces my suspicion that there are more crashes with simulated rope breaks than with accidental ones.

Mike