Traumatic Injury Accident By Prop

It is a very sad story...but the saddest part is that it would have been so easy (and correct) to shut down the engine before he got out :frown:
 
The case can be made that he should have shut down the engine, after all he did get killed. But, that doesn't mean he SHOULD have shut down the engine. If there was somone else in the plane, then not shutting down the engine isn't neccesarily the lapse of judgement that you might think...especially if he was on a taxiway. It's quite common in GA to get in and out of a plane with the engine running if there's a qualified someone guarding the brakes.

Flight Instructors do it all the time with first solo students. After doing a couple of warm up TO's and LDG's, they'll taxi to a ramp area and the instructor will get out and let the first solo student taxi back out and do their 3 bounces. Seat swaps are comon too, when you have two students aboard, and they're taking turns observing each other train.

If he was alone in the plane, then he should have shut it down, no question.

Obviously, this well seasoned FI made an incredibly unfortunate boo boo, and that's really to bad.
 
This reminds me of when I used to work on aircraft carrier flight decks. We had a few serious accidents similar to this, and one fatal one. I hate propellers! Working around E-2s in the dark is about the scariest thing ever. Very sad story here. All it takes is one momentary lapse in paying attention to where you are to cause this.
 
A tragic accident. Just a moment of distraction is all it takes.
I remember working the flight line in the reserves when we had P2V's. When chocking/unchocking the wheels I always stayed well clear of the props. Walk or stumble into one of them (R-3350 engine) and you're not even a blip on the RPM gauge.
 
Bone said:
I don't care much for them either. With a few exceptions, props are for boats!
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Recently I found photos and a story of an accident that included a mechanic and a 737 jet engine.... Not a pretty sight to say the least! Nothing identifyable left .. :barf:
 
Ferry_vO said:
Recently I found photos and a story of an accident that included a mechanic and a 737 jet engine.... Not a pretty sight to say the least! Nothing identifyable left .. :barf:
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I know the one. A Continental 737 in El Paso sucked a mechanic into the right engine. The poor guy was packed in quite tightly around the N1 fan section. Gruesome.
 
If anything, jet intakes are even more dangerous than props. Luckiest guy I ever knew was an E-2 plane captain that got sucked down the intake of one of our RF-8 Crusaders. By some miraculous combination of suction and airflow the lad went down feet-first rather than head-first and only lost a foot as the pilot quickly shut down the engine. F-8's were known to completely digest their victims.
 
" Aviation In it self Is Not Inherently Dangerous.But To An Even Greater DegreeThan The Sea,It Is Terribly Unforgiving Of Carelessness,Incapacity,Or Neglect ".....Always sad! Vin
 
TARPSBird said:
If anything, jet intakes are even more dangerous than props. Luckiest guy I ever knew was an E-2 plane captain that got sucked down the intake of one of our RF-8 Crusaders. By some miraculous combination of suction and airflow the lad went down feet-first rather than head-first and only lost a foot as the pilot quickly shut down the engine. F-8's were known to completely digest their victims.
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Happened with an A-6 getting ready for launch and was caught on film. I first saw it when I went to Av Fuels school. This guy went in head first and hung in the intake. The engine still ate his equipment. When the engine shut down, he slid back out of the intake. Supposedly he never was quite right upstairs after that. I think it's on youtube now.
 
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