Lancaster California: Another Fatal Cirrus Crash

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** Report created 1/10/2006 Record 1 **

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IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 526CD Make/Model: SR22 Description: SR-22
Date: 01/09/2006 Time: 2134

Event Type: Accident Highest Injury: Fatal Mid Air: N
Missing: N
Damage: Destroyed

LOCATION
City: LANCASTER State: CA Country: US

DESCRIPTION
ACFT CRASHED WHILE PRACTICING A MANEUVER, THE TWO PERSONS ON
BOARD WERE FATALLY INJURED, LANCASTER, CA

INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 2
# Crew: 2 Fat: 2 Ser: 0 Min: 0
Unk:
# Pass: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0
Unk:
# Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0
Unk:

WEATHER: 2150Z 04012 50CM CLR 15105 A3029

OTHER DATA

Departed: LANCASTER, CA Dep Date: Dep. Time:
Destination: LANCASTER, CA Flt Plan: Wx Briefing:
Last Radio Cont: ON FINAL
Last Clearance: CLEARED FOR THE OPTION

FAA FSDO: VAN NUYS, CA (WP01) Entry date: 01/10/2006

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...nes-california
January 10, 2006 latimes.com : California Print

2 Killed in Lancaster Plane Crash
Flight instructor and student were practicing takeoffs and landings in
craft with a safety chute.

By Jill Leovy, Times Staff Writer

A flying instructor and his student were killed Monday when a small
plane equipped with a safety parachute crashed northeast of Gen.
William J. Fox Airfield in Lancaster.

The two men, who authorities did not identify pending notification of
relatives, were practicing takeoffs and landings just before their
Cirrus SR20 aircraft went down at 1:42 p.m. in what Los Angeles County
Sheriff's Lt. William Hindman called "open desert" near Avenue F and
40th Street West.

The plane was registered to Todd Olson of Henderson, Nev., according
to the Federal Aviation Administration. Olson could not be reached for
comment...

Just like Richard Collins says. The chute is a great way to make the
wife feel safer about flying but most accidents happen too close to the
ground to make a real difference.

-Robert

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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** Report created 1/10/2006 Record 1 **

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IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 526CD Make/Model: SR22 Description: SR-22
Date: 01/09/2006 Time: 2134

Event Type: Accident Highest Injury: Fatal Mid Air: N
Missing: N
Damage: Destroyed

LOCATION
City: LANCASTER State: CA Country: US

DESCRIPTION
ACFT CRASHED WHILE PRACTICING A MANEUVER, THE TWO PERSONS ON
BOARD WERE FATALLY INJURED, LANCASTER, CA

INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 2
# Crew: 2 Fat: 2 Ser: 0 Min: 0
Unk:
# Pass: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0
Unk:
# Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0
Unk:

WEATHER: 2150Z 04012 50CM CLR 15105 A3029

OTHER DATA

Departed: LANCASTER, CA Dep Date: Dep. Time:
Destination: LANCASTER, CA Flt Plan: Wx Briefing:
Last Radio Cont: ON FINAL
Last Clearance: CLEARED FOR THE OPTION

FAA FSDO: VAN NUYS, CA (WP01) Entry date: 01/10/2006



ATTN: DOCTORS - Cirrus, the new Bonanza, get yours today!

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DW

On 10 Jan 2006 09:08:02 -0800, "Robert M. Gary"
wrote in .com::

Just like Richard Collins says. The chute is a great way to make the
wife feel safer about flying but most accidents happen too close to the
ground to make a real difference.


It would seem that a forced landing in the desert would cause little
damage; after all gliders do it routinely. As the aircraft was on
final approach at the time, an unrecoverable stall/spin may have been
a factor. Perhaps the distraction of attempted 'chute deployment was
also a factor in this mishap? At any rate, I would expect seat-belt
harness to have precluded substantial injury in a forced landing in
the desert.

How many Cirrus crashes is the NTSB concurrently investigating now?

42 Cirrus aircraft accidents in five years.
14 in 2005.
11 of 14 were model 22's, of of which was a G2.
3 of 14 were model 20's.
4 of 14 flights were fatal.

42 Cirrus aircraft accidents in five years.
14 in 2005.
11 of 14 were model 22's, of of which was a G2.
3 of 14 were model 20's.
4 of 14 flights were fatal.

How does this divide out with total flying hours in the Cirrus? How
does it compare with othe aircraft once normalized?

Jose
--
Money: what you need when you run out of brains.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

("john smith" wrote)
42 Cirrus aircraft accidents in five years.
14 in 2005.
11 of 14 were model 22's, of of which was a G2.
3 of 14 were model 20's.
4 of 14 flights were fatal.


MN Dec 11 ...3 dead
NC Dec 29 ...2 dead
CA Jan 9 ....2 dead

Appears all were SR22's


Montblack

Hmmm, I don't see any indication of a 'forced landing'. Looks like a crash.

Anyway, that doesn't look like routine glider off-field landing country.
That's, "oh ****" chew up your glider country. But no matter.

Thanks for the link

Larry Dighera wrote:

Just like Richard Collins says. The chute is a great way to make the
wife feel safer about flying but most accidents happen too close to the
ground to make a real difference.

It would seem that a forced landing in the desert would cause little
damage; after all gliders do it routinely. As the aircraft was on
final approach at the time, an unrecoverable stall/spin may have been
a factor. Perhaps the distraction of attempted 'chute deployment was
also a factor in this mishap? At any rate, I would expect seat-belt
harness to have precluded substantial injury in a forced landing in
the desert.

"john smith" wrote in message
...
42 Cirrus aircraft accidents in five years.
14 in 2005.
11 of 14 were model 22's, of of which was a G2.
3 of 14 were model 20's.
4 of 14 flights were fatal.

How does this compare with the total # of GA accidents in 2005?

I'd also like to see some data on the experience of the pilots of these
planes to see if we're once again putting high performance planes in the
hands of inexperienced pilots and wishing them luck....