Parachute Saves Argentine Airshow Pilot has a video showing a pilot at an airshow in Argentina who landed safely after losing the wing of his RANS S-9.

Parachute Saves Argentine Airshow Pilot has a video showing a pilot at an airshow in Argentina who landed safely after losing the wing of his RANS S-9.

Dang, good to see those systems work. It's better however to know that he's safe.

I wish all light aircraft had this safety feature

Seems odd that the wing fractured in that maneuver, presumably that was a fatigue fault which was already weak from other stresses placed on it. It's obviously tough to call, but it certainly doesn't look like he's pushing over minus 4G at that point.Ballistic Recovery Systems are gaining a reputation to rival Martin Baker in saving pilots, that's apparently over 250 occasions they've been successfully used to effect an emergency recovery to date. Very cool technology, I do wear a chute myself - you can see that in my forum picture with the blue straps - but in that sort of situation, you'd probably never make it out of the aircraft to use a personal 'chute with it rolling and pinning you in the cockpit, so those BRS affairs are real life savers.Al

Seems odd that the wing fractured in that maneuver, presumably that was a fatigue fault which was already weak from other stresses placed on it. It's obviously tough to call, but it certainly doesn't look like he's pushing over minus 4G at that point.Ballistic Recovery Systems are gaining a reputation to rival Martin Baker in saving pilots, that's apparently over 250 occasions they've been successfully used to effect an emergency recovery to date. Very cool technology, I do wear a chute myself - you can see that in my forum picture with the blue straps - but in that sort of situation, you'd probably never make it out of the aircraft to use a personal 'chute with it rolling and pinning you in the cockpit, so those BRS affairs are real life savers.Al

When I flew the Mustang, I had to wear a chute. The CFI pilot (Lee Lauderback) told me that in an emergency, he would release the canopy, and I was to climb out on the wing and roll off. If it was on fire he would invert and we would release the shoulder harness so we'd fall right out. Oh and don't forget to pull the rip cord!!! It started to give me second thoughts, but that feeling went away, once we were in the air!!