Although it is no doubt true that some of the pulls could have ended safely with no injury without pulling, that doesn't mean they were incorrect pulls. I thin

Although it is no doubt true that some of the pulls could have ended safely with no injury without pulling, that doesn't mean they were incorrect pulls. I think parachutes are great safety devices. At the risk of definitively putting myself on the wrong side of other pilots' opinion, I think it's great when flying can and is safely opened to lower skilled individuals. The more pilots flying means more support for airports and aviation services. In other words, maybe you could have recovered from their "departure from controlled flight", but maybe they can't; and since there is a safety mechanism to recover them, that becomes OK (instead of a fatality statistic).