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The parachutes didn't launch.

Clarke and the others watch as the ship comes down, as it does Clarke says something is wrong and that the parachutes didn't deploy. The Exodus ship comes in to fast and crashes.

My guess is that when Diana pulled the Exodus ship away from The Ark, before it was ready to launch, the controls for the parachutes might have been damaged, or the parachutes themselves where never in place.