Among other things, US manufacturer Cirrus Aircraft is known for the fact that some of its planes, namely those from the SR series, are fitted with a ballistic parachute. This, in the event of an ...

The idea seems intuitive: if something goes wrong in flight, why not deploy a giant parachute and gently lower the aircraft to the ground? We have all seen similar scenes in numerous movies and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — On Friday morning, crews removed the wreckage of a small plane that crashed in Brandon on ...

Two people narrowly escaped from a small airplane that deployed its parachute as it spiraled down into a Florida backyard on Thursday. “I looked up to see that it was an airplane with a parachute ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian accident investigators on Thursday released dramatic images of a skydiver’s parachute becoming entangled on an airplane’s tail, leaving him dangling at 4,500 ...

What makes the majority of people prefer the “nice, safe” ground to flying around the heavens in airplanes, is a maxim they used to read in their copybooks: “What goes up must come down.” It is not ...

A skydiver broke free and ultimately survived after his reserve parachute accidentally deployed and got stuck on the tail of an airplane as it was soaring through the sky. The Australian Transport ...

SEFFNER, Fla. - An airplane parachute deployed as a small plane crashed into a Florida backyard last week may have saved the lives of the people on board. Witnesses caught on camera the moment a small ...

On Monday, Nov. 3, a husband and wife walked away from their small plane crash outside of Sedona, Ariz. unharmed, authorities say Yavapai County Sheriff's Office A couple walked away unharmed after ...