Why giant parachutes won’t work on airliners—exploring the physics, safety philosophy, and engineering realities behind ...

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — On Friday morning, crews removed the wreckage of a small plane that crashed in Brandon on Thursday. Two people on the plane walked away from the wreckage with only ...

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind. (WNDU) - When you see a parachute, you probably think a person is attached to the bottom of the chute but what about an airplane? That’s exactly what happened this weekend when ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (FOX40.COM) — A Northern California fire ...

(CNN) - A parachute may have saved the lives of two people after their single-engine plane went down in Washington state. The Cirrus SR-22 crashed in a residential area but the two men on board were ...

A plane went down in Whitethorn near the Humboldt-Mendocino County line last Friday. Thanks to the plane’s emergency parachute that was utilized as the plane was going down, all three people aboard ...

Both people on board a small airplane that crashed in Bellevue, Washington, on Tuesday were not injured after the plane made a relatively soft landing in a wooded area thanks to a parachute. Bellevue ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Three Santa Rosa residents, including a 2-year-old child, suffered only minor injuries after their small plane lost engine power and deployed an onboard parachute that floated the ...