DULUTH — Chalk up another first for Cirrus Aircraft. The Duluth-based manufacturer was the first company in the world to build a personal jet standard equipped with a whole-plane parachute. And this ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. CENTENNIAL, Colo. (KDVR) — Last month, we ...

The pilot who used a parachute to make a relatively soft crash landing in Fayetteville Tuesday actually trained to do that at Jones Riverside Airport. Pilot Bill Simon recognized he was running out of ...

BRS, Inc., South St. Paul, Minn., began development tests last month for a new emergency parachute system for Cessna 172 aircraft. The company, which manufactures the emergency aircraft parachutes for ...

An experienced skydiver died Saturday after her main parachute collided with another jumper's gear, and her emergency chute failed to deploy, authorities said. Jasmine Black, 48, had completed more ...

The pilot of a small plane escaped injury Friday when the aircraft made an emergency landing using a large parachute to descend before landing in a suburban Indianapolis pond, police said. The plane ...