It is in the interest of all that repairable aircraft are not scrapped if only to keep the insurance costs down.
A&C
Agreed on the above but it is not in the interest of the owner. As you know aircraft with an accident history go for peanuts well repaired or otherwise.
Who will buy a Cirrus which has had a chute deployment and subsequent crash and rebuild? The bargain hunters with no cash to own a Cirrus and thats it!
Such aircraft tend to then go on with avionic problems in the future etc after such a shock loading even if the units appear fine at the time.
So it very much suits the owner to have the aircraft written off.
Pace