An amazing video has emerged from New South Wales, Australia capturing the moment a pilot used a specialist parachute during a crash over the Blue Mountains.

In the footage, captured by bystander Doug Turner on Saturday afternoon, the light aircraft can be seen falling slowly from the sky under the red and white parachute.

Doug later wrote online that he heard “a loud bang, then the plane’s parachute was deployed, the pilot attempted to restart the engine but failed.”

According to local news reports the two men on board escaped without serious injury after the plane had a “soft” landing in local resident’s front garden.

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Lawson Light Plane Crash (Blue Mountains NSW, Australia) - CAPS Cirrus Airframe Parachute System saving the lives of the pilot and 3 passengers.

Plane came down at 14:08, 10th May 2014 (SYD time)

Loud bang, then the plane's parachute (I didn't even know those existed) was deployed... the pilot attempted to restart the engine but failed.

Seems it was Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS).

No-one badly injured. Landed 'safely' (i.e. crashed slowly!) in the front garden of a house about 100 yards down from my house.