One in a Million Shot

[Cador]

Sounds like this guy had my kind of luck...

Plane kills jogger in SC beach emergency landing
The Associated Press
updated 9:27 a.m. CT, Tues., March. 16, 2010

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. - A 38-year-old father of two was jogging and listening to his iPod when he was hit from behind and killed by a small plane making an emergency landing on the beach, officials said Tuesday.
Robert Gary Jones of Woodstock, Ga., was killed instantly on Hilton Head Island on Monday evening, said Beaufort County Coroner Ed Allen.
The single-engine plane had lost its propeller and the pilot's vision was blocked by oil on the windshield, Allen said.
Jones was married and had two children, the coroner said.
"Apparently he did not see nor hear the plane," Allen said. "The plane was basically gliding."
Hilton Head fire and rescue spokeswoman Joheida Fister said the identities of the pilot and a passenger on the Experimental Lancair IV-P plane were not released. The two were not injured.
The plane started leaking oil at about 13,000 feet and tried originally to make it to Hilton Head Airport, Fister said.
The oil on the windshield blocked the pilot's vision and he told authorities the propeller came off the plane. When he tried to land on the beach near the Hilton Head Marriott Resort and Spa, the plane hit the jogger and came to rest a little farther down the beach, she said.
"I would have to say it's pretty unusual," Fister said.
FAA records show the aircraft was registered to Edward I. Smith of Chesapeake, Va., with a certificate issued in 2004. Smith has a private pilot's license, according to FAA records. Nobody answered early Tuesday at a phone number listed for Smith and a message was not immediately answered.
The plane left Orlando at 4:45 p.m. and was headed for Virginia, Fister said. The four-seater plane has a turbine engine, can be built from a kit and can fly up to 370 mph, according to the Lancair Web site. The IV-P model has a pressurized cabin.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board were investigating, Fister said.
An FAA spokeswoman referred inquiries to the NTSB.


URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35885646/ns/us_news/

[WooHooGuy]

Propeller fail.


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[DivineMarquis]

They really need to install horns on those things.

[WooHooGuy]

At least a bell and some rainbow colored streamers.

[the punisher]

Jogging is bad for you

[sardo numspa]

Jogging is bad for you

if you don't die from a heart attack then a plane is the next big killer while jogging

[phantom]

I thought somebody got a fusilli Jerry Seinfeld stuck up their butt.

[BombaySapphire]

I'll be on the lookout when I'm in HH in a few weeks.

[Bruto51]

Guess he should have gotten a pair of these...


rear view sunglasses

for those times when you need to see what's going on behind you


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[windrunner]

Propeller fail.


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How dumb is it that people pay to see a scene in a movie reenacted? If it was a real historical event.............I can see that. But do they do something different in the reenactment? Is there a different outcome? If you've seen the movie, you know what is going to happen.

Just goes to show that people on vacation will spend money on anything.

[WooHooGuy]

How dumb is it that people pay to see a scene in a movie reenacted? If it was a real historical event.............I can see that. But do they do something different in the reenactment? Is there a different outcome? If you've seen the movie, you know what is going to happen.

Just goes to show that people on vacation will spend money on anything.

I'd have to agree.

Last Disney vacation we skipped the studios all together.

[PDXOR]

I'd have to agree.

Last Disney vacation we skipped the studios all together.

When I went to D-World last year, the visit to the movie studio was by far the most disappointing day. The best part was that it's a small park and the day was short.

[gunzen]

They really need to install horns on those things.

i chuckled.