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That's a simulated image accompanying the ATC audio. Photos from the scene show the aircraft upright but everything crushed forward of the firewall.

Congratulations! I have somewhere around 10-15 hours in the SportStar from 2007, and I also had the chance to visit the original distributor's assembly facility in Kerrville, TX. It was the first LSA I flew solo and I absolutely loved the plane. I don't recall thinking its ground behavior was...

Back in 2006-2007, Cirrus Design adopted the marketing slogan "The Genius of Just in Case." While it didn't prove especially effective (they canned it within a few months, IIRC) I still think those six words are an absolutely spot-on summary of CAPS and other whole airframe ballistic parachute...

This appears to be where it hit, coming out of the alleyway between the A and C terminals. He may have been following the actual boundary edge marking?

Also worth noting that (justified or not) we'd be speaking ill of the dead.

Odder still, as despite past "differences" AOPA has continued to report favorably about him and those around him. The association reported as Dan's oldest son spent his 17th birthday checking off several ratings in 2013...

Nothing beyond what's already been mentioned and/or linked. I had no clue about the AOPA/CAC mess until today.

Nope. The DC-3 vs. Cops incident at 6A2 happened 22 months after the apparently ratty-as-hell Catch-A-Cardinal airplane was delivered to AOPA in January 2008. On a related note, I must say the folks in Frederick did a masterful job of keeping that entire affair under the radar.

Such a search probably wouldn't have revealed anything untoward back then. The wheels didn't (publicly) start flying off his wagon until the police incident in November 2009.

Unfortunately, the NTSB prelim notes the pilot-rated passenger (the CFI) succumbed to his injuries. https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/103010/pdf

Per the LiveATC recording, this was on his last planned touch-and-go and his next landing was to be full stop. And sure enough it was...

At least one involved a heli: the October 2014 midair at FDK between an R44 and... a Cirrus. https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2016/june/03/ntsb-reports-probable-causes-of-2014-maryland-midair

Close to three hours (2:50) of figure 8s this morning, at much the same GS and altitude ranges noted previously. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N352TD/history/20210515/1238Z/KVLD/KVLD/tracklog

Video of the SR22 under canopy. It's low-res but I don't see the landing gear. https://twitter.com/DenverChannel/status/1392560583950561281 While it beats the alternative, that landing must have hurt like hell.

"The airport is used for emergency medical services and during forest fires. BIA Road J-8 goes to Dulce to the airport." https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/tribal/tribalprgm/govts/jicarilla.htm XNI (Zuni) in western NM is another well-maintained reservation airport that's used almost exclusively for...

That was about 60 nm to the SSE, at Las Cruces Municipal Airport. Dubya landed at LRU in 2004 (in a 757) and one of the C-17s supporting the trip sank into 4/22 despite warnings from airport management not to land on that runway. To the OP, I wish I knew more about TCS to share. Given the...

He was cleared for takeoff from 35, so it at least looks like he made it back to the runway in use. LiveATC caught the takeoff clearance near the end of the 1230Z feed and after he landed, near the start of the 1300Z feed; the segment that would have included the actual flight is curiously...

Right, and I should have been clearer in my response. The aircraft appears to have departed Sebring to the southwest before heading north toward Bartow, where it looks to have performed a touch-and-go before heading toward Lakeland. There isn't any apparent sign of trouble on LiveATC until LAL...

It was a Bonanza, N125WC. Pilot declared engine failure approx. 2 miles out of LAL.

Tower reported 050 at 9 gusting 16 after clearing him to land. I doubt he has much experience landing the Raptor in a crosswind (I can't remember if there was one during the emergency, when he scraped the left wingtip?) and while it could have been a good opportunity to expand the envelope a...