A Cirrus SR22 GTS G5 platinum, N425MT, deployed its airframe parachute (CAPS, pull #168) due to an engine failure near Columbus, Nebraska. The aircraft came to rest in a field. The two ...
When Cirrus Aircraft co-founder Alan Klapmeier barely survived a midair collision in 1985, he vowed to put a parachute into all future Cirrus airplanes. By 1999, Alan and his brother, Cirrus ...