US Coast Guard video captured a plane deploying its airframe parachute system and landing in the water after running out of fuel off Hawaii.

The single engine Cirrus SR-22 aircraft nosedived before levelling out and landing in waters northeast of Maui.

The pilot escaped safely before the plane flipped over and began sinking.

The plane was heading from California to Maui.

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