On Jul 13, 7:47*am, a wrote:
It may be selective memory on my part, but it seems these airplanes
have been over represented among GA accidents lately.

The story of this crash can be found here (and elsewhere)

http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_s...e-Plane-crashe...

In times past the Beech Bonanza, especially the V tail
variant was deemed the "Doctor Killer". It has now
been replaced by the Cirrus SR series.

And there's not a thing wrong with either. It's just
$ + high performance + low experience = incident.

Also, I read or heard somewhere that the BRS parachutes
don't work if your speed is excessive at deployment. The
lines can snap.

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Mark

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