Isn't she the luckiest person alive?

Maybe?

I feel that your username is an appropriate reaction to reading this

Lucky isn't the word I would use

Wouldn't she just go.....splat?

You get bitten by ants not stung

She was smart, not lucky. A "secondary"chute is ur one n only reserve. She was smart enough to be wearing and AAD, automatic activation device that detects pressure change to calculate altitude. If the main has not deployed by a certain altitude, it automatically deploys the reserve. This slows u down enuff to live. Otherwise she would have hit the ground at 120 miles per hour. That's when you go splat.