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Old 13th May 2021, 16:02
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pattern_is_full
 
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The SR22 has fixed landing gear. They appear to be missing in both the video of the descent, and post-touchdown still pictures.

So yes and no - definitely damaged, but the gear seem to have absorbed the worst of the impact for the Cirrus.

A last-second pull-up is possible, but so is just being lucky in one's position ± a foot or a fraction of a meter.

This accident shares characteristics with other collisions involving flight paths converging at a shallow angle - from PSA 727-Cessna at KSAN (1978) to the helo-Piper collision over the Hudson (2009).

I'm sure the NTSB will get full use out of their nifty-difty re-creation/simulation tools for examining what obstructions to vision each aircraft was experiencing in the last seconds.
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