A father and daughter safely landed their Cirrus SR22 using its airframe parachute system after an engine power loss over Long Island, walking away unharmed. The incident, captured on video ...

A Cirrus SR22T crashed near Aspen, Colorado, on January 27, 2020, shortly after takeoff, following the pilot's report of an airspeed indicator problem. Both occupants survived the crash without injury ...

LAKELAND, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 13, 2004--In two separate incidents last week, five lives were saved by having their aircraft lowered to the ground by parachute. Both aircraft were Cirrus, the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The phased-deployment model for the kind of parachute that saved a father and his teenaged daughter this past weekend over Long ...

Pilot Jeff Ippoliti suspects April 10, 2004, would have been his final day on the planet if it weren't for CAPS, the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System that returned him to the ground unscathed after a ...

The Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) has been deployed 103 times, saving more than 200 people, according to data provided by Cirrus. CAPS has been included in the SR series of aircraft since ...

The innovative Cirrus Design parachute system designed to minimize the impact of a plane crash was put to the test in Texas. The pilot walked away from the first crash of a Cirrus airplane in which ...

Cirrus Aircraft could certificate the airworthiness of the single-engined SF50 Vision jet without an in-flight test of the whole aircraft parachute recovery system under a new proposal by the US ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. The phased-deployment model for the kind of parachute that saved a ...