A Cirrus SR20 crashed approximately two miles from Danbury Airport in Central Connecticut last night, and all three occupants walked away, though their airplane was held up for a while. (Initial reports had reported that it was an SR22, but those reports turned out to be inaccurate.)
According to reports in the local papers, the CFI flying the airplane with two passengers reported “an unspecified” mechanical problem and deployed the Cirrus’ whole airplane recovery parachute, which did its job, lowering the airframe at a survivable rate of descent. The accident took place early at night, but it was a very dark night, and the terrain surrounding Danbury is hilly and wooded, an inhospitable place for a forced landing even during the daytime.
