Cirrus Vision Jet Pilot Pulls Chute in Florida

Saturday, September 10, 2022 at 10:41 PM ET

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The CAPS is housed in the fuselage ahead of the single Williams International FJ33-5A engine in the SF50, as shown on this company demo aircraft. [Stephen Yeates]

Key Takeaways:

A Cirrus Vision Jet successfully deployed its Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) during an incident near Kissimmee Gateway Airport, Florida.
All three occupants—the pilot, a boy, and a woman—survived the landing in a marshy area, with the woman sustaining only non-life-threatening injuries.
This incident marks the first operational deployment of the CAPS system on a fielded Cirrus Vision Jet (SF50) aircraft.

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A pilot and two passengers are okay after the Cirrus Vision Jet went down after deploying the CAPS (Cirrus Airframe Parachute System), apparently while on approach to Kissimmee Gateway Airport (KISM) in Florida on Friday.

The scene following the deployment was reported by a local news affiliate as a marshy area in the “area of Lake Tohopekaliga,” where the pilot and a boy walked away and a second passenger, a woman, sustained “no life-threatening injuries.”