> 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