Posted on 10/02/2023 4:50:38 AM PDT by nuconvert
A woman is dead after authorities say she was struck by a plane while mowing the lawn in Oklahoma last week.
The woman, identified as 27-year-old Samantha Hayes, was on a lawn mower at the Broken Bow Airport in McCurtain County Friday afternoon, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
At the same time, a 1972 Bonanza A36 piloted by a 70-year-old man was coming in to land on the runway.
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Take all images with a grain of salt given how many filter apps there are to adjust images now. None probably look like the real person.
Yeah. Final Destination in real life.
Shortly after we moved here to rural kentucky, one of the professors at our local university was driving along the highway while they were mowing the median. The mower threw a large rock, it went through his windshield and killed him.
To this day, whenever I pass mowers I hold up my arm to deflect any rocks. Looks like I need to watch for planes when I’m mowing now.😁
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For the same reason that occasionally, an auto traveling 70+ mph on the highway hits a ‘pedestrian’ or deer. An A36 is a 6-seat complex retract, and final approach is around 70 mph.
That’s it- never mowing again... too danged dangerous!
I think that’s right. There may even be rules for “announcing” your intentions prior to landing so that other aircraft in the area are aware of you. That wouldn’t have helped her though. Sad situation.
Sorry, don’t see how it’s the same. He’s above & should be looking down. I think he should have noticed something unusual near the runway. So he either wasn’t paying attention, or saw something & decided he didn’t want to wait & came in anyway.
Only other possibility is that it was foggy/poor visibility.
I see another poster said that pilots will fly over a runway to make sure it’s clear before landing. I’m guessing he didn’t do that.
Maybe a visit from the Prince of Wales would right the ship Down Under.
**On a non controlled GA runway, aren’t the planes supposed to do a fly-by to look for activity.**
Most non controlled airports have published information which includes the ‘pattern’ used to approach and land.
The primary deciding factor for which runway to use is the wind direction. (A single runway is actually two: there being the use in either direction.)
A properly equipped airport has a wind ‘T’, and a wind ‘sock’ (the sock shows both wind direction and a clue to how strong the wind is). The best way to confirm the wind condition is to fly around the airport, which is also good for searching the sky for other aircraft, and checking ground traffic.
I would venture to guess the pilot didn’t fly a pattern.
I'm a GA pilot, and have made probably 5000 landings over the course of 40 years.
I think I can say the *typical* pilot is always paying attention... to something... and there is SOOO much to pay attention to. One dividing line - paying attention inside the cabin (a no-no) versus looking out the window (a must). There are virtually hundreds of things to pay attention to, like visually sensing runway aspect ratio, an indicator of altitude that replaces looking inside at the altimeter. Someone darting across the runway can happen quicker than one might think, while dropping the gear, lowering flaps, flaring, etc.
This now becomes NTSB territory, to determine if and how much is at fault. FWIW, it could even be mostly determined that the condition of the windshield was a big factor.
V97.33XD: Sucked into a jet engine, subsequent encounter
Subsequent encounter???!!!
If the lady was crossing the runway without looking, then the pilot is blameless.
On final approach the pilot tends to get tunnel vision, looking at nothing but the runway. Summer of 87 I was wrenching on planes at the Galesburg IL airport. One day, as I was doing routine engine work near the front doors of the hangar, heard and saw a light twin (Ted Smith Aerostar) coming in on final. Seeing that often, I quickly realized the plane was not aligned with the runway, but with the (closer to the hangar) parallel taxiway. He touched down straight out from the hangar, going from left to right. And I was alarmed, but helpless to do anything, because....
...right after he touched down he whizzed (at about 75 knots) by a groundskeeper mowing with a cab-less 80 hp Ford tractor pulling wide mower.
Fortunately, the mower was making his second pass along the taxiway, because if he was making his first pass the right wing would have likely removed his head.
I saw the groundskeeper (a big guy) ‘greet’ the pilot as he exited the plane. All the pilot could do was hang his head and receive the verbal lashing.
The pilot had obviously not flown the pattern. For if he had, he would have noticed how the recently sealcoated taxiway stood out more than the gray, yet much wider runway. Instead he likely spotted the taxiway from a few miles out, and never moved his eyes enough to notice the runway.
Exactly. I can't even tell if she was on the runway or not.
Dang women, always have had that effect on me!
Heh, that was what made me laugh...but I interpret it as, when you get sucked in for the first time, that is the “initial encounter” and any fugure treatment for that incident is a “subsequent encounter”...but your post hit my funny bone...
What I found funny was, who gets sucked in a second time????????? Either you don’t survive the first one, or they never let you near an aircraft for a second stab at it!
Just to be clear, I wasn’t poking fun at the plight of this poor woman, I was poking fun at the story and the way it was written, as well as the way it was perceived by us.
Nothing funny about what happened to her.
Yep, all that CO2 causing the grass to grow more.
(V97.33XD: Sucked into a jet engine, subsequent encounter
Subsequent encounter???!!!)
With the fan blades I suppose
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