Cirrus Lands via Parachute in Nantucket

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 09:17:52 -0500, "Viperdoc"
wrote in
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Does anyone know the N number

http://www.ack.net/Crash081707.html
The plane is registered to Jackson Thomas of 6 Prospect St.,
Nantucket, but Baker would not confirm whether he was the pilot.



http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinqu...umbertxt=869CD

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FAA Registry
N-Number Inquiry Results

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N869CD is Assigned

Aircraft Description

Serial Number 1421
Type Registration Individual
Manufacturer Name CIRRUS DESIGN CORP
Certificate Issue Date 10/12/2004
Model SR20 Status Valid
Type Aircraft Fixed Wing Single-Engine
Type Engine Reciprocating
Pending Number Change None Dealer No
Date Change Authorized None Mode S Code 52770174
MFR Year 2004 Fractional Owner NO

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Registered Owner

Name JACKSON THOMAS
Street 6 PROSPECT ST
City NANTUCKET State MASSACHUSETTS Zip Code 02554-2704
County NANTUCKET
Country UNITED STATES

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Airworthiness
Engine Manufacturer CONT MOTOR Classification Standard
Engine Model IO-360 SER Category Normal

A/W Date 02/18/2004

Judah wrote:
Owen Rogers wrote in
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Looks like another save for BRS and Cirrus.

Apparently a Cirrus was attempting to land ACK VFR last night when they
ran into weather (fog and low visibility after sunset on the island are
common in the summer). They pulled the Ballistic Recovery System
parachute about 5 miles northeast of ACK.

Wouldn't it have been easier to just turn around?

Fog setting in is often an area phenomenon. It's not
like flying into a puffy cumulous on a summer day.

Ron Natalie wrote:
Judah wrote:
Owen Rogers wrote in
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Looks like another save for BRS and Cirrus.

Apparently a Cirrus was attempting to land ACK VFR last night when they
ran into weather (fog and low visibility after sunset on the island are
common in the summer). They pulled the Ballistic Recovery System
parachute about 5 miles northeast of ACK.

Wouldn't it have been easier to just turn around?

Fog setting in is often an area phenomenon. It's not
like flying into a puffy cumulous on a summer day.

True, but it hardly ever covers an area as large as the range of a Cirrus.

Matt

Matt Whiting wrote:

Fog setting in is often an area phenomenon. It's not
like flying into a puffy cumulous on a summer day.

True, but it hardly ever covers an area as large as the range of a Cirrus.


The Cirrus range isn't going to help much with a non-instrument trained
pilot blundering around in the muck. The issue is the conditions
changed faster than the Cirrus can fly.

Ron Natalie wrote:
Matt Whiting wrote:

Fog setting in is often an area phenomenon. It's not
like flying into a puffy cumulous on a summer day.

True, but it hardly ever covers an area as large as the range of a
Cirrus.


The Cirrus range isn't going to help much with a non-instrument trained
pilot blundering around in the muck. The issue is the conditions
changed faster than the Cirrus can fly.

If the pilot executes a timely 180 and can fly straight and level on
instruments, as they should be able to according to the requirements to
earn their certificate, then there is no reason that fog or IMC should
require chute deployment.

Matt

"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
m...

Fog setting in is often an area phenomenon. It's not
like flying into a puffy cumulous on a summer day.

And it can happen fast...damn fast...when temperature and dew point merge
for any reason.

I will never forget the time it happened to me. It took less than five
minutes to happen, a sudden ground fog that seemed to obscure the entire area.
I was a solo student...in a glider.

Had there been a whole plane parachute there is little doubt that I would
have considered using it. As it was, I received some help to find a hole in the
stuff and all turned out well.

Vaughn

The flight listed in Flightaware.com was IFR.

"Viperdoc" wrote in
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The flight listed in Flightaware.com was IFR.




And is was on August 10th going from Nantucket to White Plains.

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"Vaughn Simon" wrote in message
...

"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
m...

Fog setting in is often an area phenomenon. It's not
like flying into a puffy cumulous on a summer day.

And it can happen fast...damn fast...when temperature and dew point
merge for any reason.

I will never forget the time it happened to me. It took less than
five minutes to happen, a sudden ground fog that seemed to obscure the
entire area. I was a solo student...in a glider.

A previous post indicates that the airport (reportedly) went IFR half an
hour earlier.

Ron Natalie wrote in news:46c87147$0$23480
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Fog setting in is often an area phenomenon. It's not
like flying into a puffy cumulous on a summer day.

Does fog simply appear around a plane out of nowhere, and the pilot would not
have seen it coming before he flew into it?

I have never experienced that phenomenon...