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Interesting that about half of the planes were repairable. That should make the decision to pull even easier. I wish there was a comparison of survivability of both people and planes in a good weather cruise altitude pull vs. forced off field landing. - Asking a bit much I know, but eventually the data will be there.

Thanks for posting this.

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Amazing - and depressing.

 

Just one day after posting the above, a Cirrus parachute pull today near Addison, TX.

 

Trying to sort things out, but as of now he had an instrument failure in IMC and pulled. Rocket ignited but chute did not deploy. Descended below a 1,000' ceiling and made it back to Addison with the parachute trailing behind and landed.

 

More to follow...

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I wonder if this was recently repacked. I know of life rafts being repacked by the manufacturer right before a mock air disaster drill where over 50% of them failed. The expert packer made a mistake.

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