Cirrus Chute Deployment Fails Over Texas, Pilot Still Makes Safe Landing:
You know you're having a bad day when a flight goes so bad that you feel you must resort to using a parachute to see you safely through the flight... but the day is TRULY bad when that chute fails and leaves you to battle the emergency that you thought you had escaped from.
The link above has the entire story. Makes one go hmmmmmm.
Buzz among the Cirrus community has been extensive and a number of folks seeking more information from ANN, have indicated that their faith in the CAPS system has been shaken somewhat... and certainly in the repack process undertaken by Cirrus.
ReplyDeleteI guess SO! Yow.