X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:57:39 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from misav07.sasknet.sk.ca ([142.165.20.171] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.11) with ESMTP id 2274133 for lml@lancaironline.net; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:27:37 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=142.165.20.171; envelope-from=hjjohnson@sasktel.net Received: from bgmpomr1.sasknet.sk.ca ([142.165.72.22]) by misav07 with InterScan Messaging Security Suite; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:26:59 -0600 Received: from sasktel.net ([192.168.234.97]) by bgmpomr1.sasknet.sk.ca (SaskTel eMessaging Service) with ESMTP id <0JN2008Y3Z0ZXE00@bgmpomr1.sasknet.sk.ca> for lml@lancaironline.net; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:26:59 -0600 (CST) Received: from [192.168.234.25] (Forwarded-For: [24.72.101.251]) by cgmail1.sasknet.sk.ca (mshttpd); Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:26:59 -0600 X-Original-Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:26:59 -0600 From: H & J Johnson Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Apologies to the farmer's daughter X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List X-Original-Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sun Java(tm) System Messenger Express 6.1 HotFix 0.20 (built Feb 27 2006) Content-type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-language: en Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline X-Accept-Language: en Priority: normal

> In a message dated 8/15/2007 5:47:50 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> hjjohnson@sasktel.net writes:
>
> Anyone heard the one about the two Cirrus pilots who lost their
> engine over
> Texas? Apparently the handle had a malfunction and no matter how
> hard they
> pulled it wouldn't deploy the chute..[I think Cirrus published an
> AD after this
> one] so they just ended up landing the plane on a road..
>
>
> Actually, it was Lexington, KY. I interviewed the pilots after the
> event and
> it was not a road but a field and they totaled the aircraft and it
> was not
> an engine failure but an instrument failure in IMC. It was a
> Cirrus.
>
> Jeff

There ya go Jeff, not having the whole story does make a difference. In that situation.. I'd think the chute would be the answer... did the pilot's walk away? [or at least survive?] Which instrument[s] failed?

Jarrett