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It's more of a rhetorical LD50. Otherwise Don Kellner would be dead as a doornail long before reaching his record.

https://www.uspa.org/about-uspa/uspa-news/uspa-posthumously-...

Edit: If the statistics held the same for him, at 46,000 jumps he had a 99% chance of dying from a failure.




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