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Originally Posted by Brown747
Another Cirrus chute save.
In cruise from Louisville to Anchorage a couple nights ago we heard this guy talking to MSP center.
Low oil pressure.. center gave him a vector to an airport 14 miles away but apparently the engine quit and he went to the chute. Before sunrise and quite dark at the time. The field looks like he could have made an emergency landing but in the dark the chute was probably the best choice. Pilot and 2 passengers walked away. 
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Yeah. We lost a good guy, 30 y/o Pennsylvania dude(from a conservative Lancaster county bacground) in a Cherokee 6 in a night incident here last weekend, lost oil pressure, somehow descended from 6k to 3k for unknown reasons, and couldn't coast to the nearest real airport (cho). Went down in rugged terrain just east of the BRP. The atc tapes are chilling. Had he had Foreflight running he would have made a highway, maybe. RIP pilot.
Bottom line-don't fly at night near terrain. His nearest alternate was over the ridge, and he couldn't do that.