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Sep 2 2022
08:27 am

A Cirrus SR22 Single Engine Fixed Wing Plane took off from Knoxville, refueled in Louisiana, and crashed in Texas, near Houston.

"Two men and one woman were onboard. One of the men died in the hospital according to TxDPS. The other two are in stable condition according to the Harris County Sheriff."

The plane crashed near a mobile home park. Luckily no one in the mobile home park was hurt.

Just eight months ago a Cirrus SR22 plane crashed in Alcoa, TN. Two people were onboard, one person died from his injuries.

Cirrus has a training facility at the Tyson McGhee Airport.

trobinson's picture

It has a better than average

It has a better than average safety rate. It even has a parachute on the newer ones. It also cost one million dollars!

from Wikipedia:
Safety record[edit]
Between 2001 and May 2014, 147 US-registered Cirrus SR22 aircraft crashed, resulting in 122 fatalities.[56]

In 2011, the accident record of the SR20/SR22 was examined by Aviation Consumer magazine. It found that the series' overall accident record is better than average for light aircraft, exceeded only by the Diamond DA40 and DA42. However its fatal accident rate is worse, at 1.6 per 100,000 flight hours—which places it higher than the United States general aviation rate of 1.2, and higher than the Diamond DA40 (0.35), Cessna 172 (0.45), Diamond DA42 (0.54), Cessna 182 (0.69), and the Cessna 400 (1.0), despite the SR22's full aircraft parachute system.[57]

By the end of 2013, the accident rate had been reduced to a fatality rate of 1.01 per 100,000 flight hours. This was attributed to better training, particularly in use of the ballistic parachute system.[58]

The accident rate continued to decrease in 2014, with a fatal rate of .42 per 100,000 flight hours, one of the industry's lowest. This marked the fewest fatalities in a single year for Cirrus since 2001, and the first year where the number of CAPS deployments (12) exceeded the number of fatal accidents (3).

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