<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>Dragging, not tipping, would have been a bigger concern, (at least before hatch opening,), and letting all that fabric and cordage drift far enough away to not endanger divers or helos. <p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />There was a Soyuz mission (I've got a very short posting window, so I can't look it up -- sorry) that had a near fatal disaster due to the parachutes not separating after touchdown. They landed offtarget on a frozen lake. The chutes were inflated by the wind, pulling the spacecraft violently across the lake. While awaiting the search and recovery teams, the crew got another nasty shock -- the ice was breaking. The chutes became waterlogged. As they were still holding the capsule on its side, it started taking on water (presumably through a pressure equalization valve). They very nearly drowned and almost certainly wound up with hypothermia. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em> -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>