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Old 5th Dec 2012, 06:38
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I do have some sympathy with your opinion that some of what is being said is simply rumour but with the very small number of Cirrus accidents there is not enough data for anything else, so far reparable Cirrus aircraft have usually been the result of overrunning the end of the runway with one chute deployment.

The biggest problem is getting to the a aircraft before some fool who knows nothing about composite structures and cuts the thing up assuming that it is a write off and so ensuring it becomes one.

On one occasion a DA40 was written off with damage that would have taken a few weeks to fix and on another occasion we arrived to find that some idiot had taken to the wing pin retaining locks with a saw ! Fortunately we prevented further damage and that aircraft is back in the air.

It is in the interest of all that repairable aircraft are not scrapped if only to keep the insurance costs down.
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