The most popular light aircraft sold in the US now come with rocket propelled emergency parachute systems which can be deployed to save a stricken aircraft safely. Cirrus has been fitting these to every single one of their aircraft since they launched back in the later 1990’s, and hundreds of people have been saved over the last few decades. It was a phenomenally complicated engineering problem to design a parachute system that deploys quickly, doesn’t destroy the aircraft or injure the occupants, and safely lands the aircraft on its wheels.
BRS Aerospace developed the original airframe parachute systems and sell them for a number of common aircraft.
Cirrus aircraft produced a lot of the video in this as training materials for pilots.
CAPS event history:
https://www.cirruspilots.org/Safety/CAPS-Event-History
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