Value of Parachutes Subjected to Meta-Analysis

Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials by Smith and Pell at 327BMJ 1459 (18 December 2003)

Of course this study is eight years old, so it is possible that someone has gotten a grant to plug this hole in our knowledge.

(spotted via David Gray)

PS For a second there I thought this would be about golden parachutes, but no such luck.