Cirrus Accident....

GreenDayPilot

GreenDayPilot

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http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=3796423

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/5957807/detail.html

http://cbs2.com/local/local_story_009171149.html



It's funny how I find out about these things. Anytime there's an accident involving a GA aircraft, I get calls from friends and family who want to confirm that I wasn't one of the pilots. Anyway, if my memory serves me right, this is the second major accident at WJF within the last week or two. Last time it was a TBM700.... it's not looking good for the overpriced single engine a/c.
 
Yeah, Cirrus hasn't had the best accident record. NTSB site shows about 40 accident/incidents in its database in past 5 yrs.
 
Media cracks me up. The video from channel 2 has a graphic behind the reporter of a plane in a dive, trailing smoke. Is that REALLY necsessary??

Wonder who rents SR-22s out of VNY?
 
MarkE said:
Media cracks me up. The video from channel 2 has a graphic behind the reporter of a plane in a dive, trailing smoke. Is that REALLY necsessary??
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I noticed that too. I guess it's an attention getter.
 
SteveC said:
Actually you can't shoot 'em if they're too high.
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Yha, but I'd rather deploy it too high then below TPA.

I found that the "best" (If you can call it that) video report was from ABC7 because they had the news helo pilot talking, and he was giving acurate information, he actually knows something, has experience and used big impressive sounding words like "actuated" when refering to the CAPS

Edit: found this: "POH notes that the minimum demonstrated altitude loss for a CAPS deployment is 920 feet from a one-turn spin"
 
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