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A new sr20 costs $280k. I sure hope it is salvageable.

Not cool they had to use it but how sweet it that technology?!

The parachute system was designed and built in Minnesota. South St Paul to be exact.

Usually the plane is totaled out once the Ballistic Recovery System is fired off. It's pretty much an insurance claim now.

cavell: Once the parachute is deployed, the plane is a total loss. The cables rip apart the upper fuselage and wings, and the landing crushes the gear and lower fuselage. Fortunately it should be covered by insurance.

Better living through modern technology!

If you are high enough for the parachute to save you you are high enough to find a flat spot to land the aircraft. I would like to know why the pilot didn't land on a golf course, field, road, pasture or open area. The glide ratio for the aircraft should be really good and you should be able to land the aircraft instead of wrecking it. The only reason to deploy the chute would be loss of aerodynamic control. By the way the chute is an option that most people don't get.

I would like to know why the pilot didn't land on a golf course, field, road, pasture or open area. - - - THAT would have added to the story, often tho details like that or the cause of the failure only are determined after investigations when the media no longer gives a hoot.

markoakes "If you are high enough for the parachute to save you you are high enough to find a flat spot to land the aircraft. I would like to know why the pilot didn't land on a golf course, field, road, pasture or open area. The glide ratio for the aircraft should be really good and you should be able to land the aircraft instead of wrecking it. The only reason to deploy the chute would be loss of aerodynamic control. By the way the chute is an option that most people don't get." I suppose it was difficult to find a golf course, field or pasture in the dark especially with the prospect of landing in snow. Depending on traffic, with no power, a road would be dangerous for both the occupants and motorists on the ground.

After all of the news over the last 5 years of these planes crashing it is nice to hear of a successful landing.