First Hand Accounts of Manhattan tall building crash

Owen writes:

He earned his pilot’s license last off-season and tried to assure
everyone that his CirrusSR20, a four seat plane he bought for $187,000.
was safe.

“The whole plane has a parachute on it,� he told The Times last month.
“Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and
the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you’re up in the air and
something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes
down slowly.�

Famous last words. I think those Cirrus planes give pilots a false
sense of security. The idea is not to pull a cord when you get into
trouble, it's to stay out of trouble to begin with. Obviously, in
this case, the parachute didn't help.

The subject of a player piloting a plane was already somewhat sensitive
for the Yankees. In 1979, Thurman Munson, the Yankee catcher and team
captain, was killed in the crash of a plane he was flying.

General aviation does not share the safety record of commercially
scheduled airline flights.

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