Cirrus/BRS deployed!

[gnx99]

Check out record #1

http://www.faa.gov/avr/aai/A_1004_N.txt

 

[ShawnC]

Heres the news story about it. I first heard about this on the IAC exploder, someone thought a Aerobatic plane went down, since he heard about a chute.

http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/4210058.htm

 

[Beantown]

Good for Cirrus, glad to see it save a life. -Bean

 

[GeorgeTG]

First Cirrus BRS Save

Lost aileron in flight after MX...
Pilot unharmed after chute deployment and landing.

more details:
http://www.aero-news.net/news/sport.cfm?ContentBlockID=5951

Cheers
george

 

[starchkr]

Good to hear it worked...but man did he "hit" close to home, no pun intended. My parents built their house there in Castle Hills on the golf course.

 

[rchcfi]

I noticed this aircraft taxi for take-off.....Don't ask me why, but it is weird to see a perfectly good airplane one minute and then a few minutes later seeing it hanging under a huge red canopy. I was in the middle of towing an aircraft and was on ground frequency when I heard the tower mention they had the chute in sight a couple miles north of the airport. I looked north only to see the airplane hanging beneath its chute!! WOW!

Here's my conspiracy theory (And keep in mind this is just a theory put together by myself and a few pilots in the pattern at the same time.) The w/o Cirrus was cleared for a left downwind departure. At the same time there was a US Navy C-40 doing transition in the pattern (Not very often we have a 737 doing pattern work at ADS). The C-40 was at 2000' in the pattern and the Cirrus bolted out at 1500'. Just after the Cirrus departed, the C-40 made a touch and go. Very quickly the C-40 overtook the Cirrus in the pattern and turned base then final about 2 minutes before the Cirrus passed directly under its flightpath heading north. Could the "separation of the aileron" occured as a result of passing close behind and possibly encountering the wake of a 737 with full flaps turning final?

 

[Vik]

I doubt wake could cause the aileron to separate. That kind of force would have also structurally damaged the rest of the airplane.

 

[ShawnC]

I am sure that the NTSB will look at all possible things that could have went wrong after all the aircraft just came out of the AD service.

Another postive thing about the CAPs the aircraft landed in a pristine condition, and the pilot is still alive so the NTSB has much more to work with than the usual GA crash.