While that has happened there have also been cases where non-pilots were
talked down when the exact same thing happened to the pilot. The difference
being that the plane was flyable again when landed without a chute.

Airsafety had a report earlier this year of a non-pilot landing a Twin
Commander but the link is broken.

http://www.airsafety.com/reports/ROW060215A.pdf


AOPA has http://flash.aopa.org/asf/pinch_hitter/flash.cfm which if you are a
non-pilot and fly with a GA pilot with any regularity you should check out.



"BDS" wrote in message
...
There was a blurb in the latest IFR magazine saying that the passengers of
a
Cirrus were saved when they pulled the chute after the pilot had a stroke.

There might be more to it than slick marketing after all. I bet those
passengers think so anyway.

BDS


"Thomas Borchert" wrote in message
...
Gwengler,

You may have a point here which supports my initial theory that just
having an additional safety feature does not necessarily make an
airplane safer.


I agree. And the Cirrus stuff is, of course, marketing. Clever
marketing.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)