A LIGHT aircraft rescue system is proving so successful at saving lives that its inventors are now planning a version for small jet planes.
This month five more people owe their lives to rocket-assisted rescue parachutes made by Ballistic Recovery Systems (BRS) of St Paul, Minnesota. When a pilot loses control, or the engine cuts out, the BRS system deploys a parachute that brings the whole aircraft down safely.
When Andrew Kolk’s out-of-control Cirrus light aircraft came down on a rocky slope amid 3000-metre peaks in British Columbia, Canada, on 8 April, he and his three passengers walked away without a bruise. Two days later, Jeff…
