Three killed in Melbourne, FL plane crash.

Seems to be a lot of Cirrus SR22's going down. Can the pilots not handle the aircraft?

Local news reporting the pilot was Robert Kurrus, a local theater owner and adventurer.

Pull the chute? Same goes for the other two crashes. Cirrus proved they were effective @ very low altitudes, such as an engine failure on take off.

I just listened to the audio archived on liveatc.net. It's just before the end of the file that starts at 2130Z from yesterday (2/29). "Tower did you see that?" "I did." Then they all start vectoring for go-arounds. Chilling.

Sounds like they wanted him to extend his final when he reported he was already on very short base. They instructed him to make it a tight turn to final. Is that the accident aircraft? It sounded like the controller said he needed to extend for the Cirrus so I'm not sure.

It sounds like to me that 4SR was doing as instructed. I think the controller was a bit too busy, for himself, and got slightly confused. He told 4SR that he would either have to extend his downwind or he could make a base to final from where he was. He told the tower he was parking at the very end of the RW (10,000 Feet), so the tower cleared him to land. From looking at the crash site location he should have been able to land with NO issues at all. I believe the controller getting hyped up over the aircraft landing on the parallel got the pilot hyped up and the pilot over-reacted. I have landed at this airport several times, I used to live in Melbourne. The airport can get busy and I have had to go-around on more than 1 occasion.

Sounds like a stall/spin scenario to me.

Dudeman, I hope you were being sarcastic.

When receiving an unsafe instruction I say, "Unable S turns on final (or whatever) and say next." Rejecting an instruction is a safety issue determine by the PIC.

looks like the cirrus is the next gen "doctor killer". newly certified private pilots going out buying an expensive plane they don't know how to fly. when will they learn?