Kev wrote:
Remember the gentleman up here in Nyack NY last year who pulled his
Cirrus chute? He then realized he was going to land in an oil tank
field, so he used the engine and rudder to "fly" his way, while under
the chute, over to a large pond instead.

Ahhh, that reminds me also that the above pilot suffered severe
injuries landing in water under the chute. Apparently the Cirrus
design depends heavily on the landing gear absorbing a lot of the
deceleration shock, and that doesn't happen on water. So it could
very well be that their chute was deployed and they still got very bad
injuries when they hit the water.

Kev