LS, thanks for the information and history, very interesting. Yeah, I hope the incidents have been few and far between, and relatively minor at that. There is a video of a HPR that goes up but doesn't deploy, and comes back down ballistic in the middle of people. Fortunately it managed to miss everyone by maybe 50 feet and more. Could have been a real tragedy.

Since you never seem to hear anyone talk about incidents and insurance I just thought I would ask out of curiosity. Really hope no one ever gets killed or seriously injured, yet it is almost bound to happen sooner or later. The safety record of the hobby is impressive though.