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Everything might look flat from the air, but it isn’t really. Our idea is that even in the unlikely event of an off-airport landing, you should never try to land in a field. “They developed the parachute, which is standard on all our aircraft, including the Vision Jet.

“Alan had a mid-air collision that he walked away from,” Nielsen explained. The strong focus on safety came in those early days as well. “But they quickly decided that was too complex, and moved on to the SR20.” That was an innovative single-piston engine composite production airplane that debuted in the late-1990s. It was an all composite, pusher-propeller five-passenger kit that first flew in 1988. “Their first product was the VK-30,” said Nielsen. Rebuilding that old Cessna got them started on the mechanical side of things, which eventually led them to start their company. Image courtesy Cirrus Aircraft - Photo by Ed Hicks Known as a "Cirrus Airframe Parachute System" or CAPS, it was a "standard feature on all Cirrus aircraft," the company added.The Cirrus G6 SR20 3. Meanwhile, in a statement to Newsweek, Cirrus said it "was the first and remains the only manufacturer to include a whole-airframe parachute safety system as standard equipment on a certified aircraft." "We are working to understand how and why these planes collided," said John Brannen, NTSB's investigator-in-charge said in the statement, "it is so fortunate that no one was injured in this collision." A preliminary report would be published within the next two weeks and the investigation would take between 12 and 18 months to complete. In a statement to Newsweek, the NTSB said it had interviewed both pilots and listened to air traffic control recordings. "We are participating in an active investigation of the incident with the FAA and NTSB," it added. In a statement, Key Lime Air said that its plane "sustained substantial damage to the empennage and tail section but the pilot was able to continue the approach and landed safely. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in a statement that it was investigating the incident with the NTSB and that "we have no reports of people on the ground being injured."

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"I thought, 'Is it somebody just jumping out of a plane?' And then I realized the parachute was attached to a plane," Whitehead said, "I thought for sure they weren't going to make it out of there." "Right when I got here I heard another bang," she said, "I saw a plane coming down." Shelly Whitehead, who saw the plane come down from her patio, told CBS Denver: "I was in the kitchen and I heard a loud firecracker bang. I mean that's the amazing part of this," he added. "I don't remember anything like this-especially everybody walking away. "Every one of these pilots needs to go buy a lottery ticket right now," said Arapahoe County Sheriff's Deputy John Bartmann, according to the Associated Press. The Fairchild landed at the airport although it did suffer significant damage to its tail section.Ĭrews with South Metro Fire Rescue and the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office rushed to the wreckage. The Cirrus deployed a red and white parachute and video shows it floating to a safe landing in a field. Then the controller said: "Cirrus 6 Delta Juliet if you hear this transmission we have emergency vehicles in your direction."

PLANE CRASH: Fire officials say no one was injured after a cargo plane and a smaller aircraft collided in the air over a Colorado park Wednesday morning.