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I'm amazed no one has mentioned this. Or maybe I missed it.
The dialogue in the trailer is referring directly to the novel. In Halo: Fall of Reach the spartans are deployed in a pelican to go to reach's surface to defend it, but the pelican is shot down in mid-air, and the spartans are forced to jump out and plummit a kilometer or so to earth. Several die, and several are severely injured, but a decent amount survive to continue fighting.
There is no mystery in what happens during the trailer.