Parachute helps plane make soft landing in wooded area in Washington

Two people left an airplane unscathed thanks to a parachute device that has been successfully used over 100 times to save doomed aircraft.

Both people on board a small airplane that crashed in Bellevue, Washington, on Tuesday were not injured after the plane made a relatively soft landing in a wooded area thanks to a parachute. 

Bellevue Police said the Cirrus SR-22 plane was equipped with a CAPS parachute system, which successfully deployed.

Video released by police shows the plane coming down nose-first behind a home. The police then shared images of the plane in a wooded area still intact, showing no signs of major damage. The plane could be seen attached to a parachute tangled in nearby trees. 

Officials told the Seattle Times that two people on board were going on a training flight when they experienced an engine failure. Some fuel leaked from the plane, and environmental officials were called out to assess the site, the outlet added. 

The crash was referred to the National Transportation Safety Board.