Video: Plane makes emergency landing using parachute

Video: Plane makes emergency landing using parachute

March 9, 2016 9:20 am PST.

A plane’s engines lost power about two thousand feet in the sky but it was able to make a safe landing in Long Island using an emergency parachute.

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