Cirrus Will Assist with NYC Accident Investigation.DULUTH, Minn. -- Cirrus Design The Cirrus Design P.N.C. Corporation is an aircraft manufacturer that was founded in 1984 by Alan and Dale Klapmeier to produce the VK-30 kit aircraft. Headquartered in Duluth, Minnesota, an additional manufacturing facility is located in Grand Forks, North Dakota and an assembly Corp., the manufacturer of the Cirrus SR-20 aircraft owned by baseball professional Cory Lidle Cory Fulton Lidle (March 22, 1972 – October 11, 2006) was an American right-handed baseball pitcher who died in a single engine plane crash four days after his team, the New York Yankees, were eliminated from competition at the end of the 2006 season. , has joined the accident investigation team being assembled by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB NTSB abbr. National Transportation Safety Board ). Company experts are already headed to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and will help resolve the many questions surrounding this accident. "Our condolences go to the immediate families and to the people of New York who may have been unnerved by the crash and subsequent emergency services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' response," said CIRRUS Vice-President Business Administration, Bill King. By accepting the NTSB's invitation to join the investigation, which is standard company policy, CIRRUS will be regarded as a party to the investigation. This status precludes CIRRUS from commenting or speculating about the specific circumstances surrounding the event or the airplane's owner. Only the NTSB has the authority to comment on the accident at this time. "What we can say is that CIRRUS was founded on the concept of making personal aviation safer, easier and more accessible to all," King added. "There are many safety features in the aircraft and one example is the parachute system. We are the only manufacturer having a certified aircraft in production that is equipped with a ballistic-deployed whole airframe parachute system offered as standard equipment." About CIRRUS CIRRUS is a recognized global leader in the manufacturing of personal aviation aircraft that provide unprecedented levels of performance, quality and safety. The popular SR20 and SR22 composite airplanes incorporate innovative advanced technologies into the design, including the unique CIRRUS Airframe Parachute System (CAPS[TM]). CIRRUS has a direct sales force in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. with sales centers across South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, China, Australasia, South Africa, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Russia. For additional information on CIRRUS and its products please visit: www.CIRRUSdesign.com. |
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