Pilot's Life Saved While on a Flight to Test New Wing

  
    
  
  
    
      Ballistic Recovery Systems, Inc. (BRSI)(OTCBB:BRSI)(BRSparachutes.com), 
      a manufacturer of whole-airplane parachute recovery systems for general 
      aviation and recreational aircraft, reported today two separate 
      parachute deployments bringing the total lives saved by BRS parachute 
      systems to 203. A New Hampshire based pilot, during a test flight in a 
      borrowed airplane, escaped death while testing a new wing. During the 
      test he experienced serious roll control problems which led to a 
      terminal unrecoverable spiral dive. The Trike he was flying was equipped 
      with a BRS emergency parachute recovery system which he deployed. The 
      Trike landed in the Connecticut River where the pilot was rescued by a 
      nearby fisherman.
    
    
      The pilot’s normal Trike does not have a BRS 
      parachute - yet. He had elected to use a different Trike, one equipped 
      with the BRS parachute, to test the new wing. He now says he “won’t 
      ever fly without a BRS parachute system again.”
    
    
      This save was the second successful BRS parachute deployment during the 
      same week. Save number 202 happened on the West coast in Lodi, 
      California when an ultralight planes’ wing 
      failed at about 2000 feet and the pilot used his BRS parachute system 
      which had been originally installed in 1999. The ultralight landed in an 
      orchard and the pilot was uninjured. According to the aircraft owners, 
      the system is now on the way back to BRS for replacement.
    
    
      Based in South St. Paul, Minnesota, BRS is a company that designs, 
      manufactures and distributes whole-plane emergency parachute systems for 
      use on general aviation and recreational aircraft. Since 1981, BRS has 
      delivered more than 27,000 parachute systems to aircraft owners around 
      the world. To date, BRS parachute recovery systems have been credited 
      with saving the lives of 203 pilots and passengers.
    
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