Cirrus down under chute in NC, right next to house. No injuries.

Re: Cirrus down under chute in Kansas, right next to house. No injuries.

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Whoops.. I read it wrong. It's Kannoplis, North Carolina. Not Kansas. :redface: Now the title is permanently messed up. :mad2:
 
Wow good to hear no one was injured. Very fortunate the plane didn't hit the house.
 
Ran out of fuel in IMC.. Just ridiculous considering how many airports with an ILS system and GPS approaches he had to of passed over en-route.
 
Maybe the pilot lives there? Cool way to arrive home don't ya think? :D

Or, maybe he saw a strange pickup in the drive way. :yikes:
 
KANNAPOLIS, NC (WBTV) - No injuries were reported from the site of a plane crash in Rowan County Friday afternoon.

The plane reportedly went down just before 3:45 p.m. on Westchester Drive in Kannapolis. Officials say a husband and wife were flying from Canada to Florida when they began running out of fuel.

 The couple reportedly tried to stop several airports but couldn't. They eventually deployed a parachute that is built into the plane and floated to the ground in the middle of a neighborhood - landing in someone's yard.

The woman in the home told WBTV that she and her husband heard a loud "thud" then looked outside to see the plane in their yard. They helped the couple out of the plane and took them inside.

No injuries were reported and no homes were damaged,

Copyright 2016 WBTV. All rights reserved.
 
So if your airplane parachutes into someone's yard like that do you buy them a bottle of champagne?
 
How do you log that flight in your book?
 
"The couple reportedly tried to stop several airports but couldn't."

Something special about the Cirrus? They developed something that prevents the airplane from landing?

Pilot is going to be sick when he realizes how close he was to an airport...1.5 miles to a grass strip.

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bflynn said:
"The couple reportedly tried to stop several airports but couldn't."

Something special about the Cirrus? They developed something that prevents the airplane from landing?

Pilot is going to be sick when he realizes how close he was to an airport...1.5 miles to a grass strip.

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The ceilings were low but were well above minimums best I could tell.
 
Not a good past couple of months for Cirrus. What is this... the 3rd or 4th Cirrus that has experienced engine trouble or run out of fuel. Good news is that all had ballistic chute dpeloyments and occupants were unharmed.
 
Risk homeostasis leading the pack in 2016
 
hindsight2020 said:
Risk homeostasis leading the pack in 2016
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Yep. But I lost the link to an excellent book about this (saved on my desktop) when I changed jobs.

Synopsis: technology reduces risk, so participants use riskier behavior to maintain the same risk level experienced with the older, les safe, technology.

Does "unable to land" mean "not instrument rated"? See risk homeostasis above . . .
 
rtk11 said:
Not a good past couple of months for Cirrus. What is this... the 3rd or 4th Cirrus that has experienced engine trouble or run out of fuel. Good news is that all had ballistic chute dpeloyments and occupants were unharmed.
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There have been at least 3-4 deployments in the last couple of weeks..
 
They are the worst pilots.
I just don't get it.
 
"LOW FUEL"

"Hmm, I think that means we have a least 8 hours left. That's what my CSIP told me."
 
Must of been cocain euphoria that led to the mismanagement of fuel.

It truly is a "helluva drug".
 
What's with the German registration?
 
In the event of an emergency (as in running low on fuel) won't the G1000 drop you right on the runway with an instrument approach?
I know you have to hand fly the landing but visibility would have to be REALLY bad for that to not to be a primary option I would think (instrument rating or not).
That being said I'm glad they're alright.
 
PaulS said:
So if your airplane parachutes into someone's yard like that do you buy them a bottle of champagne?
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Kinda like Lindy landing in Paris.
 
I think that is just how you are supposed to land them
 
Check the NTSB aviation accident database once in a while. You might learn something. Since Dec 1, 2015 there have been 16 fatal accidents, including Cessna, 140, 172, 182, and 208; a Bonanza, a Sierra; Piper 28, 32, and 46; a Rockwell 114; and a few others. Know what's not there? Cirrus.
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
I think that is just how you are supposed to land them
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Of course it is if you have an emergency. All the big talker cirrus bashers here, I bet if they were in an emergency and had a chute handle to pull they'd be pulling it while sobbing and begging for their mommies under their breath :rofl:

There have been Cirrus pilots who crashed and died without pulling the chute handle. They are the ones who followed the advice of some here.

I do not have a Cirrus, never flown one, but don't understand all the hate.
 
In 6PC's case it's not hate. His tongue is planted firmly in his cheek.
 
The good news is that it's pretty difficult to hit a house... though they came close.

I've picked more than 1 off-field landing spot (in gliders) based on proximity to HVAC, swimming pools, and in pre-cell days, a landline. Fine job done here picking an easy spot to get rescued from!

Assuming they were clueless enough to run out of fuel, They probably couldn't hit that grass strip successfully with full tanks and CAVU.

If you are going to run out of fuel, it's good to have a parachute.
 
islandboy said:
That might be a Charlie rather than a Delta, which would be consistent with a flight route from Canada to the US.
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Good catch. Found a better picture on the net C-GXXJ, a Cirrus registered to a corporation in Ontario.
 
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