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The crew and passengers of a light aircraft had a lucky escape in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, after the plane was forced to make a landing using a parachute.
The light propeller plane was filmed by onlookers floating to Earth near jungle-covered hills in the southern province of Minas Gerais, but it was saved by a device called the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System.
Footage of the incident was posted on Twitter by Aeroin, a Brazilian aviation news service.
Members of the fire service were first to the scene and found the four adult crew and two children — one of them three days old — dazed but unharmed following the crash, which was reportedly due to engine failure.
The six were travelling in a Cirrus SR-22, a US-made single-engine propeller plane that comes fitted with the safety system.
Plane uses parachute after engine fails, saving all six on board including baby
Rescuers found the four adults and two children — one just three days old — dazed but unharmed
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