All three passengers on the plane survived the accident.

A couple and their two-year-old daughter made a miraculous escape from a plane crash after deploying parachutes to slow the small plane’s fall. According to the New York Post, the family was circling over the mountains when the accident occurred. Police found them Friday near the crash site in Whitehorn, California. The outlet further quoted police as saying the 38-year-old couple and their daughter escaped with only minor scratches.

The plane, a 2004 Cirrus SR22, took off from the Shelter Cove Airport and was bound for Santa Rosa, where the family lived, police said. But during the trip, it lost power and started to decline.

“The pilot began to rule out the cause of the loss of power to the aircraft’s engines but noted that the aircraft was too low to recover,” a spokesperson for the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

The Sheriff’s Office further said he then decided to use the plane’s parachute system to slow the plane’s fall.

The parachute was huge and carried the plane until it finally crashed in the forest.

Capt. Quincy Cromer of the Sheriff’s Office told local media it sounded like a “last ditch effort.”

The head of the local fire department said: “Without a parachute, the chance of survival is very small.”

He added that all family members had deplaned when emergency crews arrived at the scene.

The fire department also released photos from the accident scene, showing the parachute became stuck in a tree destroyed by the plane.