Horrible accident, absolute terrible odds. Miles of beach and this jogger gets killed by a dead-stick kit-plane whose windshield is obscured by oil.

Beach jogger killed by plane likely never heard it

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — The kit-built single-engine plane had turned into a glider, almost silently trying to make an emergency landing along a stretch of beach. Pharmaceutical salesman Robert Gary Jones, ear buds in, listening to his iPod while jogging neither saw nor heard it and was struck from behind Monday evening and killed instantly.

"There's no noise," said aviation expert Mary Schiavo, a former inspector general for the National Transportation Safety Board. "So the jogger, with his ear buds in, and the plane without an engine, you're basically a stealth aircraft. Who would expect to look up?"

"I've got a lot of issues going on right now," Smith said. "I've got a plane that's all torn up. And I've got a young man that I killed."

At least he's got his priorities straight.

And that is why I don't go jogging.

Another reason running sucks...poor dude. Hope his family is taken care of.

That's right up there with getting hit by a meteorite.

(in total bad taste..but this guy lives)

(in total bad taste..but this guy lives)

Excedrin Headache #69?

EDIT: Contrail, Wow. You actually searched for a video of "man gets hit by plane".

Edited March 17, 201015 yr by Spoo

And that is why I don't go jogging.

EDIT: Contrail, Wow. You actually searched for a video of "man gets hit by plane".

I'm sure he's seen it before and was just reminded of it. Hell, I think it's in the flying video's thread.

Even with oil smeared on the windshield, Schiavo, the former NTSB official, said Smith should have been able to see through a small window on the side of the plane and possibly yell out to anyone below.

Really? Really? YGBFSM. No wonder he's a "former" NTSB official.

Really? Really? YGBFSM. No wonder he's a "former" NTSB official.

Damn. I'm sorry I missed that. NTSB Official Shiavo (thought she died a couple years ago, but whatever...) is a ra-tard.

EDIT for clarity

Edited March 19, 201015 yr by Spoo

If he'd been wearing a reflective belt, he simply would have had the plane bounce off of him.

Really? Really? YGBFSM. No wonder he's a "former" NTSB official.

Ha! If you have enough time and SA to yell out the window to some guy you might hit while dead sticking in an airplane on a beach, it'd be a lot easier to turn the nose of the airplane 1 degree left.

Shiavo (thought she died a couple years ago, but whatever...) is a ratard.

LOL

Not retarded, just a vegetable. And be careful, you don't want to incur the wrath of Palin for using that word.

Ha! If you have enough time and SA to yell out the window to some guy you might hit while dead sticking in an airplane on a beach, it'd be a lot easier to turn the nose of the airplane 1 degree left.

Um...it's a glider. By definition, you are flying dead stick all the time...

Actually the Lancair isn't a glider except in this case where the engine was inop.

Actually the Lancair isn't a glider except in this case where the engine was inop.

If you get killed while jogging on a beach by getting hit by a plane making an emergency landing, DUDE, IT WAS YOUR TIME.

Actually the Lancair isn't a glider except in this case where the engine was inop.

I stand corrected