Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140614:21:36:00
Slowing his descent. if he pulls the preserve parachute and it gets caught in the mangled main chute, it will not only fail to open, but it could interfere with the little bit of drag he has, and actually speed up his descent. >> it's either going to make it better, you know, it's either going to have the magic, open, slow it all down, crisis averted, or reduces that drag, and definitely that would make me dead. >> holmes takes a calculated risk, waiting until he's below 1,000 feet to pull the reserve. >> below a thousand feet, i'm dead anyway. and i was like, here we go. and i grabbed the res...