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Fashion Model walks into plane propeller

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I would have figured she wouldn't have been allowed to leave plane without propeller to stop spinning first. Pilot fucked up there.

She was also an idiot herself, anyway.
 
SphinxnihpS said:
Love how the article levels some blame on the pilot...
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I'll defer to the airport/FAA protocols if there are any. But one would think that for passenger planes there are certain safety procedures that should be followed. Someone had to open the door and let the passengers out. There certainly is some negligence that should be addressed.
 
vi edit said:
I'll defer to the airport/FAA protocols if there are any. But one would think that for passenger planes there are certain safety procedures that should be followed. Someone had to open the door and let the passengers out. There certainly is some negligence that should be addressed.
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No. Not walking into placing placing body parts into spinning blades is as common sense as you can get. This society is crazy with blame. I have no sympathy for the stupid, and neither should anyone else. Put her up for the Darwin if she can't reproduce over this.
 
SphinxnihpS said:
No. Not walking into placing placing body parts into spinning blades is as common sense as you can get. This society is crazy with blame. I have no sympathy for the stupid, and neither should anyone else. Put her up for the Darwin if she can't reproduce over this.
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I could make the same argument that the pilot failed common sense in letting a passenger deboard without powering down the prop. It was a horrible accident (although worse, it could have killed her) that is not a one sided story of fault.
 
This is truly a tragedy. I mean she's a model after all. Her livelihood depends on her good looks and now that's gone.
 
roguerower said:
Please tell me which twin engine civilian prop driven aircraft you climb into from the front when the propellers are spinning? None. The two options are a door in the rear fuselage behind the wing, or you climb up onto the wing from the rear and enter off the wing.

-De Havilland Twin Otter? Rear Door
-Beech King Air? Rear Door
-Piper Seneca? Rear over the wing
-Short Skyvan? Through the rear cargo door



I'm not assuming anything. There are very few aircraft out there with a "pusher" propeller and they are easily identifiable from the majority of other aircraft that someone would see at an airport. The girl in question was careless and stupid and suffered because of it.
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I don't quite know what you are ranting about here, but you had your clue in post #57
Aerostar
http://www.airportjournals.com/Display.cfm?varID=0604022

Aero Commander
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_Commander_500_family

None of that matters.

If you think the pilot has no responsibility for his passengers leaving the plane, then you are clueless.
The flight is not over till the ropes are on and the wheels chocked. His plane, his responsibility. He had the controls to the 'cuisinart' out there, and he chose to leave it running.
It was a bad idea not in hindsight, it was a bad idea period.
 
What is the plane was on a treadmill and going backward? As she would have gotten off the treadmill to get on the tarmac, the airplane would have backed up right into her.
 
They should make these things really loud and move a lot of air... oh wait.

Is it a horrible accident, yep. But I can't find a scenario where this happens and the person involved isn't totally clueless.
 
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