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03-16-10, 07:23 PM
A beach, a jogger, a failing plane, and death
DORIE TURNER
From Associated Press
March 16, 2010 9:07 PM EDT
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Robert Gary Jones was a pharmaceutical salesman on a business trip, looking forward to getting home to celebrate his daughter's third birthday. He was enjoying a moment to himself on this resort island, jogging on the beach and listening to his iPod. Officials say the Woodstock, Ga., man neither saw nor heard what struck him from behind Monday evening: A single-engine plane making an emergency landing.
The Lancair IV-P aircraft, which can be built from a kit, had lost its propeller and was "basically gliding" as it hit and instantly killed Jones, said Ed Allen, the coroner for Beaufort County on the South Carolina coast.
"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?"
This guy was probably the self-absorbed Prius driver we all blow by on the morning commute who is smuggly doing 55 in the right lane with his ears full of RF emitting brain cancer causing gear.
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DORIE TURNER
From Associated Press
March 16, 2010 9:07 PM EDT
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Robert Gary Jones was a pharmaceutical salesman on a business trip, looking forward to getting home to celebrate his daughter's third birthday. He was enjoying a moment to himself on this resort island, jogging on the beach and listening to his iPod. Officials say the Woodstock, Ga., man neither saw nor heard what struck him from behind Monday evening: A single-engine plane making an emergency landing.
The Lancair IV-P aircraft, which can be built from a kit, had lost its propeller and was "basically gliding" as it hit and instantly killed Jones, said Ed Allen, the coroner for Beaufort County on the South Carolina coast.
"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?"
This guy was probably the self-absorbed Prius driver we all blow by on the morning commute who is smuggly doing 55 in the right lane with his ears full of RF emitting brain cancer causing gear.
link (http://enews.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20100316/c5fd5cbd-e096-43de-9493-9f12d7900e08)