correction...
Jack and Tom (who posted on this previously) fail to mention that it was not a failure of the Orion parachutes. It was a failure of the trainer-chutes that were there to put Orion in the correct state for chute deployment. As a result, it was totally off-nominal at the moment of Orion deploying its chutes, and so they failed.
If it's raising questions among 'critics in the space industry' - then the question is...why don't they read the frickin press release and read that it was a failure of the testing system, not of the system being tested.