A father and daughter safely deployed a Cirrus SR22 parachute after experiencing engine loss over Long Island, walking away unharmed. The successful landing in a grassy industrial park, approximately ...

A Cirrus SR22T crashed in mountainous terrain near Aspen, Colorado, in January 2020, after the pilot reported an airspeed indicator problem shortly after takeoff. Both occupants, a couple, survived ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Another Cirrus SR22 pilot looks to have been saved by the aircraft’s parachute when he ran out of fuel 220nm (400km) from Hawaii. After alerting the authorities to his plight, the pilot deployed the ...

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 FAA has issued an airworthiness directive for all Cirrus Aircraft’s Model SF50 aircraft following reports of an accident and incident involving the “uncommanded activation” of the Cirrus Airframe ...