Zing
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Florence, Arizona
I saw a news report yesterday that a second Cessna 162 Skycatcher airplane has been dinged in development. I thought it was going to be an LSA aircraft, but this news story has Cessna calling it a new two-seat trainer for general aviation.
I haven't really been following this closely, but in the first incident, the test pilot jumped out and used a parachute after getting the airplane into an unrecoverable spin. That was late last year.
This second incident resulted in the deployment of a ballistic recovery parachute (BSR I think) and the airplane ended up hitting a fence when landing and went over on its back. The pilot walked away, no serious injuries.
Haven't seen many other details about either incident. It's possible a parachute deployment was done intentionally as part of the development program, but the news story made it sound like an unexpected end to a routine test flight.
I haven't really been following this closely, but in the first incident, the test pilot jumped out and used a parachute after getting the airplane into an unrecoverable spin. That was late last year.
This second incident resulted in the deployment of a ballistic recovery parachute (BSR I think) and the airplane ended up hitting a fence when landing and went over on its back. The pilot walked away, no serious injuries.
Haven't seen many other details about either incident. It's possible a parachute deployment was done intentionally as part of the development program, but the news story made it sound like an unexpected end to a routine test flight.