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Or maybe, like in planes, there's a specific take-off (launch) protocol, which ensures that the plane is safe to launch/take-off. If they (Diana, Ridley, etc.) were about to be stopped by the Ark guards, they panicked and launched the exodus ship without the launch procedure completed or double-checked. If one thing was wrongly done, or not done at all, the ship would have probably failed. They mustn't have checked if the parachutes were safe, or if they would be ready to deploy.