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An air-chute safety system (10) for an aircraft (12) having a fuselage (14) with a cockpit (16) and a tail end (18), and a pair of wings (20) with engines (22). The system (10) comprises a plurality of drag parachutes (24) stored in and deployed from the tail end (18) of the fuselage (14), in conjunction with an aerodynamic braking apparatus in the aircraft (12), which will shut down the engines (22) during an emergency when in flight, so that the aircraft (12) will slow down. A plurality of top parachutes (26) are provided. A structure (28) is for storing each of the top parachutes (26) in vertical spaced apart relationships below a top surface (30) of the fuselage (14) between the cockpit (16) and tail end (18) thereof. A component (32) is for deploying each of the top parachutes (26) from above a bottom surface (34) of the fuselage (14) and below each of the storing structures (28), through the top surface (30) of the fuselage (14), after the drag parachutes (24) are deployed, so that the aircraft (12) will slowly and safely float down to the earth.

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