Failure of a parachuting device.
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Examples for "malfunction"
Examples for "malfunction"
1Patients were followed for 6 months; therapy duration and malfunction were recorded.
2Centrifuge parts that worked for a year but then began to malfunction.
3Sixty-three percent suffered a shunt malfunction within 5 years of ASD implantation.
4Their malfunction has been linked to a number of diseases and disorders.
5Since Mission Control could hear their conversations, Scott fabricated a seatbelt malfunction.
1He said he did not want to comment on the suggestion there was a parachute malfunction, but that this would be investigated.
2The last fatal skydiving accident there occurred in 2011, when another jumper's parachute malfunctioned, according to sheriff's records.
3In 2000, an agency smokejumper leaped from a plane to his death in Alaska after his parachute malfunctioned, Frederick said.