College student who rented plane for date dies after walking into propeller

New York Post ^ | October 18, 2022 | Mark Lungariello

[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.

[EEGator]

[lilypad]

ALways shut down. No matter what.

[nevergore]

Gotta’ watch out for that spinning thingy on the front of the plane......

[nickcarraway]

I was thinking of exactly that.

[plain talk]

Expensive date.

[DugwayDuke]

Had he been vaccinated?

[kiryandil]

It was on his bucket list.

[EEGator]

I can’t help but think of that...

[Cobra64]

Yeah, autopsy will reveal he died of Covid.

[Mrs.Z]

My dad trained Navy pilots during WW 2. I only asked him once if he ever saw any crashes or bad things.
He said a mechanic walked into a propeller a few feet from him.
He walked away and I got the definite message that he never wanted to talk about it again, so we didn’t.

[Round Earther]

Got to give him Props for the creativity.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“ Got to give him Props for the creativity.”

That’s how CNN will spin it.

[Jolla]

Steven Spielberg took that scene from a Louie L'Amour story.

[usconservative]

It’s just a flesh wound, she can prop him up for their dinner date ...

[Governor Dinwiddie]

"Got to give him Props for the creativity."

It is what it is. No need to spin this story.

[CFIIIMEIATP737]

It’s a sad story no matter how you slice it.

[euram]

When I was stationed at Ft Rucker AL a Warrant Officer Candidate who had washed out committed suicide by walking into a tail rotor.

[DugwayDuke]

Cobra64 wrote: “Yeah, autopsy will reveal he died of Covid.”

No, had to be the vaccine.

[CommerceComet]

The first off-color joke that my father told me:

Did you hear about the lady who backed into an airplane propellor? Disaster. (Sound it out - it's a phonetic joke.)