Another Cirrus Down - w/ chute deployment

[bonal]

There are also 2 golf courses within 9000ft that might be doable based on Mooney glide ratios but perhaps not Cirrus. If he ran out of fuel then he is a dumb s%^# if it was something like engine failure caused by whatever a pilot/owner cant control then he did great. but either way I'm glad no one hurt.

[Cabanaboy]

pretty hard impact,,,,,,,

[cnoe]

The BRS site claims a descent rate of 900-1,680 fps (didn't specify Cirrus) which is more of a smack than I imagined. No wonder they need fixed gear and high-G seats.

Imagine a no-flare landing at 1,000+ fpm. Ouch!

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[Joe Zuffoletto]

I'm just very glad they made it and walked away from it. Lots of woods, streets and buildings in that densely populated area, and not a lot of choices. I think he made the right choice with his 17-year-old daughter on board to pull the chute. That certainly would have colored my decision at 2000'agl in that area.

They were returning from looking at colleges in CT. I hope she has a stellar college experience, which she will now live to enjoy.

[carqwik]

The bigger question is why so many Cirri seem to be having engine problems requiring a chute pull....??  If I was a Cirrus owner, I would find the frequency of occurrence to be worrisome. 

[Hank]

3 minutes ago, carqwik said:

The bigger question is why so many Cirri seem to be having engine problems requiring a chute pull....??  If I was a Cirrus owner, I would find the frequency of occurrence to be worrisome. 

I've read elsewhere that it's related to the power reduction for descent. It doesn't worry me, as my first power reduction for descent happens at TPA about 3-4nm from my destination, so that I can bleed off airspeed gained in the descent.

[flyboy0681]

On 3/8/2016 at 7:26 AM, Marauder said:

 

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I would have put it down in the upper right-hand corner: Landing Avenue

[201er]

On 3/8/2016 at 4:00 PM, PMcClure said:

I am actually impressed that he had the training and presence of mind to pull the chute at 2000'. What's the minimum effective altitude it works? Like 1000'. He literally had seconds to decide to do it and execute. I have to say job well done (pending further investigation why the engine quit!)

We don't know for how long the engine was quit before he pulled (maybe coming down from 8000ft for all we know). He had another thousand feet before the last chance to pull so that's about 2 more minutes. He could have moved several miles in that amount of time. Extremely lucky crashing exactly where they did. A few seconds would have put one wing on the building and the other in the air and that cirrus would have smacked the ground just as hard but upside down! Yikes

Doubt the parachute crash is survivable if at the last moment one wing hits first and turns the plane inverted?

[aviatoreb]

On 3/9/2016 at 10:13 AM, flyboy0681 said:

I would have put it down in the upper right-hand corner: Landing Avenue

I about lost it - that was funny.

[Shadrach]

On March 9, 2016 at 11:06 PM, carqwik said:

The bigger question is why so many Cirri seem to be having engine problems requiring a chute pull....??  If I was a Cirrus owner, I would find the frequency of occurrence to be worrisome. 

It just seems frequent because chute pulls are big news. I bet at least 2 single engine Cessnas have landed off airport somewhere in the country in the last week.

[aviatoreb]

13 minutes ago, Shadrach said:

It just seems frequent because chute pulls are big news. I bet at least 2 single engine Cessnas have landed off airport somewhere in the country in the last week.

and a few may have even landing on a runway

[MyNameIsNobody]

On March 8, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Cabanaboy said:

pretty hard impact,,,,,,,

Trying to imagine doing that landing on a Mooney's gear....Ouch!

[HRM]

2 hours ago, MyNameIsNobody said:

Trying to imagine doing that landing on a Mooney's gear....Ouch!

...I think the word is bounce!