Duh! But a flat spin entered at 5000 AGL is a perfect scenario for popping
the cork, and yet it didn't happen. Whatever the reason it should give
anyone pause.

This all started with talk about icing- now if you ice a plane up real bad,
there's a chance of stalling and spinning or some other weird failure like
tailplane stalling leading to a really weird loss of control. Now if the
'chute didn't save these guys from spinning the plane in from a mile up on a
sunny day, what's to say it should do any better when you're sweating lead
in the clouds?

-cwk.

"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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In a previous article, "Colin Kingsbury" said:
"Dan Thompson" wrote in message news:SAZAb.19
CFIT is about the only
crash scenario where the chute would not be helpful,

Read this and tell me if you still feel the same:
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...02X00613&key=1

Since that is NOT a CFIT accident, I don't see how it could change his
mind.

Here's a little hint for you: An inadvertent "right, flat spin" is not
"Controlled".