No, that's fixable. The first successful BRS deployment
landed in some small trees which softened the landing.
The airframe was (so I read) repaired. That part
is just cosmetic. It's the 1500 fpm touchdown that drives
the gear through the wings, breaks the engine mounts
and so on.

John

"Ben Jackson" wrote in message
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Michael 182 wrote:
I'm thinking about floating down in a $400K Cirrus with chute deployed in
a
spin in IMC, then breaking out at 1500 feet looking at a suitable landing
place and cursing the imminent destruction of the plane.

I thought the parachute attachment cables ripping out of seams in the
composite airframe is what totalled it.

Deploying the chute isn't that bad from an insurance perspective. The
avionics, engine and probably many other parts will have significant
salvage value.

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