Taking a dumper down to a surface was one of the ways we used to spice up a ‘bootstrap’ expedition. There would always be two or three engineers on any mission who liked to live on the edge and take a few wild chances.

I gave up the hobby, not because the development company started to dismiss employees they caught pulling the stunt, I gave up because a good mate of mine took his last trip in a dumper.

The weather twisted four of the six chutes. Instead of landing at 20kph he hit the prairie at about 250 kph. Even if he’d survived the impact, he was pulped by a JCB digger which broke from its storage chains and made a hole in the bottom of the dumpers hull. Apparently they identified him from a fingertip which was about the only recognisable part of his corpse that remained intact.
-Anon