Either the jogger was deaf or had the tunes up too loud in the headphones. WTF? This just pisses me off! Do planes have horns??????;0
ZenDraken
The plane’s engine was kaput, the propeller was gone (according to a news report I read somewhere), and it’s a Lancair, which is one of the slipperiest, smoothest airplanes available. You wouldn’t hear a thing until it was too late.
GRIZZ
Someone said duck,and he said “no, seagulls”
Rich C.
Boo….
MinneSoCold
You have to be the most unluckiest person or really pissed-off the Big Guy upstairs because the odds of being hit by a plane while jogging….. gotta be up there about one in a “Obama’s National Debt” trillions.
Still, feel sad for the jogger & family. Sucks.
Dan 1950
From a pilots perspective… Just bad luck. Had the pilot seen the guy avoiding would have been fairly easy I would think. But its hard to avoid things you can’t see. The beach likely looked deserted from the pilots perspective.
Landing looking out the side window is not difficult but seeing things ahead at the same time not so easy.
In 20-20 hindsight its easy to see the pilot screwed up in this way or the other. When you are in an A/C with no power and poor visibility and one chance to get it right or die…
Its not like he took off planning the have the prop come off then find some guy on the beach and land on him.
Rich C
That’s why you always carry at least a million slick in insurance.
Pilot walked away after remembering that as soon as the prop came off, that the insurance company owned the plane.
Nice skills to land with a heavily out of CG aircraft with limited visibility. I probably would have not done so well…
