thanks to a BRS (Ballistic Recovery System) parachute that comes standard on this 2017 Cirrus airplane, the stalling engine was not the disaster it might have been in the mountains near Aspen... at 9000 feet. In fact, it has been holding the plane in place on the steep mountainside

Though radioing their mayday at 3:25 pm, 5 miles from Aspen, it was pitch dark, snowing heavily and the wind was blowing hard by the time the Mountain Rescue Aspen volunteers made it within a half-mile of a small plane crash on Monday evening.

 Seven teams of rescuers — 25 people in all — had been breaking trail through waist-deep snow and were coming at the plane from different directions

The plane — a 2017 Cirrus SR22T — had been flying Monday afternoon from Aspen to Eagle County when, the pilot later told authorities, his instruments “went haywire” and indicated the plane’s engine was stalling, and he only had seconds to decide whether to deploy the plane’s parachute, which he did, he said.

The airplane’s parachute was tangled in the trees above the plane and was holding the aircraft in place and keeping it from sliding down the slope, Steindler said.

Rescuers, however, were able to extricate the couple from the plane without any issues. Mountain Rescue volunteers brought extra clothes, snowshoes, food and water for the Noels, then guided them out of the wilderness starting about 9:15 p.m.

The hike out took 3 hours.

The  “ballistic recovery system” was developed by BRS Aerospace and comes standard on Cirrus planes

https://www.aspentimes.com/news/deep-snow-steep-slope-complicated-plane-crash-rescue-near-aspen/

Thanks James!