2. But I read XXX in the news and it said his/her parachute didn't open!

First-off, that's not a question. Also, don't believe everything you read in the news - it's never as simple as "his parachute didn't open", and news reports like this give skydiving a bad name it doesn't deserve. Also remember that you'll hardly ever see a news report of a skydive that went right, because it happens thousands upon thousands of times, all over the world, every week; unfortunately it just isn't news until something goes wrong.