Toro Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 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?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoo Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 "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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 And that is why I don't go jogging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CharlieDontSurf Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 Another reason running sucks...poor dude. Hope his family is taken care of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Okawner Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 That's right up there with getting hit by a meteorite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
contraildash Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 (in total bad taste..but this guy lives) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoo Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 (edited) (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, 2010 by Spoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sky_king Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 And that is why I don't go jogging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkey Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerkDerka Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoo Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 (edited) 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, 2010 by Spoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt4fans Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 If he'd been wearing a reflective belt, he simply would have had the plane bounce off of him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sky_king Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BQZip01 Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfargin Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Actually the Lancair isn't a glider except in this case where the engine was inop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest onetwopi Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BQZip01 Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Actually the Lancair isn't a glider except in this case where the engine was inop. I stand corrected Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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