scotta2728 wrote:

I had to reply to the incident regarding the Cirrus that recently went
down in icing conditions,

Strike one.

at night,

Strike two.


in the mountains.

Strike three, you're dead.


There has been a
lot of discussion on the Cirrus Owners website regarding recent
accidents and wether or not they are related to the safety of the
Cirrus. I have owned an SR22 since August and love the plane, so I'm
not unbiased, but as a reference, in 2004 there were 20 fatal accidents
in 182's vs 3 fatal accidents in Cirrus. I have no statistics on the
hours flown in each type.

About a million to one difference. As far as statistics go every Cirrus
crash is a bad deal because there's so few of them out there compared to
182's. Every wreck has a definite movement of the stats. One 182 wreck
doesn't move the stats at all.