You may have thought that parachutes are for people to escape from planes, but apparently we now have parachutes for the whole plane. Two small airplanes approached Centennial Airport near Denver for landing on Wednesday but collided before they touched down. A Cirrus SR22 single-engine plane deployed its Cirrus Airframe Parachute System, which you see above. The pilot and his one passenger walked away from the incident. The second plane was a twin-engine Fairchild Metroliner, which suffered extensive damage.
The first plane was carrying two people at the time of the crash and both walked away without injury. The second plane landed safely at an airport. The only person on board was the pilot, who wasn't injured either. https://t.co/KDpz4ZvEqx
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Still, the pilot, who was the only person aboard the green plane, walked away uninjured! -via Boing Boing