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Old October 14th 06, 10:19 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Christopher Brian Colohan
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Default Cirrus Death Trap?

Well, the ones from before 1880 were!

Don't believe me? Why don't you try one and see?

;-)

Chris

"Jim Macklin" writes:
Everyone who ate tomatoes before the year 1880 is dead!
Therefore tomatoes must be poisonous.



"Marco Leon" wrote in message
oups.com...
| Jay Honeck wrote:
| The long knives are coming out now... This excerpted
from an AP
| article this evening:
|
| "Hersman said that as of September, there were 545 SR20s
registered in
| the United States. Since 2001, the NTSB has investigated
18 accidents
| involving the plane; those crashes resulted in 14
deaths."
|
| They sure make that sound terrible, don't they? Why, in
just five
| years, 3.3% of the SR-20 fleet has been lost to
accidents, resulting in
| 14 deaths!
|
| Heck, that means that in, um, er, something like 151.5
years there will
| be NO Cirrus SR-20s left flying at all! See the whole
article he
|
| Yeah, but the bright side is that in only 100 years, the
Cirrus SR-20
| fatality rate will be nil! Did you know that the Sopwith
Camel was one
| of the SAFEST aircraft last year? ZERO fatalities! Wow!
|
| Statistics have sharp edges on both sides.
|
| Marco
|