http://www.austrialpin.net/products/cobra/specs.asp
Have no fear.
Even if a 200lb man attached to a helicopter by enough steel cable for him to reach terminal velocity before reaching the end of the cable fell out of that helicopter, he would generate 9.7kN, which is well below the 18kN rating of the weakest Cobra buckles.
You aren't using that much rope, so you'll never reach terminal velocity. You also aren't using steel cable, so you're deceleration at the end of your fall will be much less. Both of these mean you will never break an individually tested and rated Cobra buckle falling out of a helicopter in normal conditions.
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