Following the crash of a US Boeing KC-135 “Stratotanker” refueling jet in Iraq on Thursday (March ...

The idea seems intuitive: if something goes wrong in flight, why not deploy a giant parachute and gently lower the aircraft to the ground? We have all seen similar scenes in numerous movies and ...

Six crew members killed aboard a KC-135 that crashed in Iraq on Thursday—the most recent casualties of the war on Iran—likely ...

The skydiver managed to free themselves by cutting the lines of their reserve parachute, after a time in freefall, they were able A skydiver in Australia was seen on camera dangling from underneath a ...

A skydiver broke free and ultimately survived after his reserve parachute accidentally deployed and got stuck on the tail of an airplane as it was soaring through the sky. The Australian Transport ...

Captain Mark Tyler Voss, 27, Captain Victoria Pinckney, 27, and Technical Sergeant Herman “Tre” Mackey III, 30, were the ...

The co-pilot who jumped out of a plane mid-flight without a parachute over North Carolina on July 29 was “visibly upset” during the flight, the National Transportation Safety Board said in an initial ...

Cirrus is well-known for its safety feature of a parachute that can help get a crashing plane or jet to the ground more gently, sparing lives. Now, those parachute also line duffel bags, overnighters, ...

A skydiver in Australia was seen on camera dangling from underneath a plane after their reserve parachute became snagged on the aircraft's tail mid-air. On Sept. 20, a Cessna Caravan and a pilot, ...