The self-landing plane can find the nearest ... Catch up quick: Cirrus has for years included a parachute system that allows a malfunctioning plane to slowly and safely return to the ground.

Together, these features combined with Safe Return™ Emergency Autoland and the company’s signature Cirrus Airframe Parachute System® (CAPS®), bring to market the SR Series G7+, a robust ...

Cirrus Aircraft has introduced Safe Return, a self-landing system that takes control ... which includes its whole-airframe parachute system, standard across all models, that has saved more than ...

forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing. Video footage from the incident shows the plane slowly coming down with the parachute before falling in a wooded area. Both people onboard were not ...

Our auto-landing sequence lasted 10 minutes ... in part because of safety features like the Cirrus CAPS (Cirrus Airframe Parachute System), which has been responsible for 132 aircraft recoveries ...

We learned the pilot deployed the emergency Cirrus Airframe Parachute System, or CAPS, which allowed it to crash-land safely. Now, we’re learning more about how those parachutes work.

on Tuesday were not injured after the plane made a relatively soft landing in a wooded area thanks to a parachute. Bellevue Police said the Cirrus SR-22 plane was equipped with a CAPS parachute ...

A California couple and their two-year-old daughter survived a crash landing in their small ... He then deployed the aircraft’s Cirrus Airframe Parachute System to slow the plane’s descent ...

The Cirrus SR Series G7+ is the world’s first single-engine piston aircraft equipped with an FAA-approved autonomous emergency landing system ... Cirrus Airframe Parachute System® (CAPS ...