> 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
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