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![]() Actually, no pilot has ever reported recovering from a spin in a Cirrus. Who would he report to? It is not for lack of trying. There are numerous reports of Cirrus aircraft crashing (or they would have crashed if CAPS had not been deployed) after the pilots entered a spin, however. I don't agree. What there have been is a few low altitude spin ins and a couple of crashes involving pilots not deploying the chute. However, there is no indication that they attempted to recover from (or even recognized they were involved in) a spin. Searching the NTSB for Cirrus: 1. Stall/spin immediately after takeoff (treetop level). SR20 2. Pilot deployed CAPS in IMC after insturments became unreliable SR22 3. Botched landing due to brake failure. SR22 4. Wire strike during simulated forced landing SR22 5. Low altitude stall due to evasive manouvering in the pattern. SR20 6. Crash from low altitude pass SR20 7. Wire strike. SR20 8. Spatial disorientation followed by a high speed impact with the ground (unlikely therefore to have been a spin). SR22 9. VFR-into-IMC CFIT SR20 10. Collision with deer SR20 11. CAPS deployed after aileron falls off. SR22 12. Mountainous terrain/Density Alt CFIT SR20 13. SPIN FROM 5000 FEET. SR22 14. Spatial disorientation and CAPS wouldn't deploy, collides with trees on emergency landing. SR22 15. Emergency landing due to failure to replace drain plug SR20 16. Forced landing due to fuel mismanagement. SR22 17. Botched landing SR22 18. VFR into IMC CFIT (mountainous) SR20 19. SR20 test crash (aileron jamming) 20. VK30 CG test results in spin. 21. VF30 engine fire forced landing Plus there are two more that don't have enough information to determine. However I suspect one was a botched illicit IFR approach. The other was a fatal in Spain. As far as I know ther ehave been FOUR Cirrus deployments (counting the most recent one) Of which only the last one as near as I can tell might be spin related. The others were PANIC button pulls from mechanical failures or disoriented pilots. So at the most we've had one SR20/SR22 crash from a spin that the pilot might have thought to try recovering from (either via CAPS deployment or control input) and one CAPS deployment to avert a spin. This doesn't agree with your statement. |
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