![]() ![]() The impact on the victims and their families is unspeakable and morally there is no choice but to improve the Cirrus and its safety record. That switch would increase the cost of the aircraft which is now expensive at a million dollars each but each accident costs Cirrus millions to defend and compensate so the cost benefit should be obvious. A turboprop engine is a jet engine attached to a propeller and does not suffer the unreliability issues that piston engines do. Later models used an even more unreliable turbo-charged engine. ![]() The solution for Cirrus is to do away with this unreliable powerplant and develop with partners or buy an off-the-shelf turboprop powerplant which has immense reliability compared to the turbo-normalized piston powerplant it used in this model. Many have been killed or injured and while the aircraft has a ballistic recovery system, a parachute that can be used to lower the aircraft to the ground safely, many pilots either cannot or are reluctant to pull that handle because it works only about 80% of the time and destroys the airplane. There have been more than 100 losses of power in this model Cirrus. Plenty of fuel, no expense spared for maintenance but yet another two occupants were nearly killed when the powerplant failed. He will be able to explain his power loss which prevented him from achieving enough power to even maintain level flight. This crash is important because the pilot survived. WITHOUT A TURBINE ENGINE THIS MODEL IS DOOMED TO SUFFER MORE ACCIDENTSĪ Cirrus SR22 piloted by an experienced and well-respected pilot was on approach to Wings Field, Blue Bell Pennsylvania when it suddenly lost power requiring an emergency landing on a golf course.īoth occupants survived though injured. ANOTHER CIRRUS SR22 GOES DOWN DUE TO LOSS OF POWER ![]()
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