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 ...

No injuries were reported after a bizarre incident near Denver. Two planes collided in mid-air and despite the damage to both aircraft, all occupants are reportedly unharmed after one landed safely ...

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 ...

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 ...

A parachute that softened the landing of an airplane that encountered mechanical problems saved the lives of the three men on board, an airport official said Wednesday. The single-engine Cirrus SR-20, ...

DULUTH — Chalk up another first for Cirrus Aircraft. The Duluth-based manufacturer was the first company in the world to build a personal jet standard equipped with a whole-plane parachute. And this ...

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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 ...

Later this afternoon my wife Deb and I will be talking with, and to, a group of executives and employees of the Cirrus Aircraft company in Duluth, Minnesota. The Cirrus line of small planes—which now ...