Posted on 10/18/2022 4:07:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Georgia college student died instantly when he walked into the still-spinning propeller of a small airplane he had rented for a dinner date, officials said.
Georgia Southern University sophomore Sani Aliyu, 21, was hit in the head twice at Statesboro-Bulloch County Airport on Sunday night after he got off a plane piloted by two friends who had taken him and a woman to nearby Savannah, according to officials and reports.
“They flew to Savannah to go on a date, flew back, landed at the Statesboro Airport, and the young lady got off the plane, and he got off the airplane and walked toward the front of the plane, and when he did, the propeller hit him,” Bulloch County Coroner Jake Futch told the Statesboro Herald.
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Oof!
We really should chop the silly puns...
He was smitten ....
A case of distracted walking...
Not exactly the 1st guy to be preoccupied with a girl...
He got hit only TWICE? The prop must have been darn close to a complete stop.
Unless he got his head removed on the first hit, was walking around like a chicken with its head chopped off, and then went back into the prop a second time.
My career in the USAF was spent mostly on jets. except for a brief stint on OV-10s. I remember being on a run up on the trim pad one night and I just kept telling myself there’s a prop right there there’s a prop right there there’s a prop right there
The story above says he got hit in the head twice? Once would be enough but maybe he fought it?
My first airplane was a hand start. I flew solo most times, you just have to be thinking, when you work around machinery.
My father was a crew chief on a PBY. They were training in Corpus Christi (IIRC) and he said that someone walked through a spinning propeller was not struck.. He was not so fortunate when he turned around and walked back through the same propeller.
You only get one chance to make a first impression.
it is a date she will remember for the rest of her life,
Darwin award nominee of the month right there. By the way he was not a pilot but he paid someone to fly him and his ‘date’ around for an hour.
This is not an easy feat in a 172. My guess is that his date told him to take a long walk off of a short bridge.
Those propellers will get you every time.
The instructor made me yell out the window that the prop was about to start.. even though not a soul was in sight... it was a lesson well taught... NEVER ever take ANY chances with a spinning prop!
I like twins but sometimes you wonder what would happen if a blade came off the prop and hit the fuselage...eeek I like the old Skymaster twins with one up front and one behind... and they have that Nam look and feel to them...
Cessna 337, IIRC.
AKA the suck me, blow me!
I heard about a stewardess that backed into a propeller.
Disasster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWr5FDOjEcg
First Rule of walking on the ramp: sucky things and spinny things have absolute right of way.
It is surprising how many 336 and 337’s failed takeoff due to the pilot forgetting to start the rear engine.
I was a Huey Crewchief, also went to Fort Rucker (Mother Rucker), saw accident training films with mannequins getting hit by tail rotors, and main rotors, definitely not pretty.
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