# Jogger killed by an airplane. **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 19, 2010, 4:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jogger-killed-by-an-airplane/250978 "2010-03-19T16:42:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vovchandr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/vovchandr/32/6275_2.png) [@Vovchandr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vovchandr)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 4:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jogger-killed-by-an-airplane/250978/1 "2010-03-19T16:42:15Z")
Figure that one out. > HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Robert Gary Jones was a pharmaceutical salesman on a business trip, looking forward to getting home to celebrate his daughter’s third birthday. He was enjoying a moment to himself on this resort island, jogging on the beach and listening to his iPod. > Officials say the Woodstock, Ga., man neither saw nor heard what struck him from behind Monday evening: A single-engine plane making an emergency landing. > ``` > The Lancair IV-P aircraft, which can be built from a kit, had lost its propeller and was "basically gliding" as it hit and instantly killed Jones, Ed Allen, the coroner for Beaufort County on the South Carolina coast, said Tuesday. > > ``` > ``` > "There's no noise," said aviation expert Mary Schiavo, a former inspector general for the National Transportation Safety Board. "So the jogger, with his ear buds in, and the plane without an engine, you're basically a stealth aircraft. Who would expect to look up?" > The pilot, Edward I. Smith of Chesapeake, Va., and his lone passenger both walked away from the crash landing near the Hilton Head Marriott Resort and Spa. > > ``` > ``` > Marshall Clary was sitting in his home office overlooking the beach when the crash happened about 6:10 p.m. He said he heard nothing when the plane hit Jones and didn't realize something was wrong until he heard emergency helicopters overhead a short time later. > > ``` > ``` > From his back deck, he saw the plane in the water about 100 yards from where emergency responders used a sheet to cover the bloodied body of a man wearing jogging shorts. > Jones, a 38-year-old salesman for pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, was in Hilton Head on a business trip and was looking forward to returning home for his daughter's birthday Wednesday, his mother said. > Pauline Jones, of Dunedin, Fla., described him as "great son, a wonderful husband," She said he lived in the northern Atlanta suburbs with his wife, Jennifer, their daughter and a 5-year-old son. > "I was never so shocked in all my life," Pauline Jones said, her voice shaking. > > ``` > ``` > "They say that God only gives you what you can handle. I said, 'You know what, I've reached my max.' " > > ``` > ``` > The plane took off from Orlando, Fla., at 4:45 p.m. Monday and was en route to Virginia when it started leaking oil at about 13,000 feet, said Joheida Fister, spokeswoman for Hilton Head Island fire and rescue. > Fister said the pilot determined he couldn't make it to Hilton Head Airport. He told authorities oil on the windshield blocked his vision and the propeller had come off, forcing him to attempt a landing on the beach. > > ``` > [http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700017149/A-beach-a-jogger-a-falling-plane-2and-death.html](http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700017149/A-beach-a-jogger-a-falling-plane-2and-death.html) ---
**Author:** ![Murrdog9000](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/murrdog9000/32/6391_2.png) [@Murrdog9000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Murrdog9000)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 5:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jogger-killed-by-an-airplane/250978/2 "2010-03-19T17:23:47Z")
pics or ban ---
**Author:** ![ReDevil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/redevil/32/6385_2.png) [@ReDevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ReDevil)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 5:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jogger-killed-by-an-airplane/250978/3 "2010-03-19T17:40:10Z")
If the plane had gearhead jointz, we would have a happier story. ---
**Author:** ![PJB](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/pjb/32/6389_2.png) [@PJB](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PJB)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 5:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jogger-killed-by-an-airplane/250978/4 "2010-03-19T17:51:18Z")
I dont care how stealth it is how can you not see, feel or hear an airplane when its close enough to be hitting you? Even a paper airplane makes noise that close. ---
**Author:** ![bennyfizzle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bennyfizzle/32/6291_2.png) [@bennyfizzle](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bennyfizzle)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jogger-killed-by-an-airplane/250978/5 "2010-03-19T17:56:39Z")
You are a dumbass PJB. The plane wasn’t running, had no propeller, it was just wind noise. Put some iPod (it’s a device used to play digital audio made my Apple) earbuds in and have someone kick, but miss your head, and tell me if you can tell they did it or not. Then add in music playing. ---
**Author:** ![PJB](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/pjb/32/6389_2.png) [@PJB](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PJB)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 6:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jogger-killed-by-an-airplane/250978/6 "2010-03-19T18:04:18Z")
Youve gotta feel it though. And see a shadow or something ---
**Author:** ![bennyfizzle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bennyfizzle/32/6291_2.png) [@bennyfizzle](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bennyfizzle)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 6:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jogger-killed-by-an-airplane/250978/7 "2010-03-19T18:05:53Z")
only if the sun is behind the plane AND you ---
**Author:** ![JClark](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jclark/32/6309_2.png) [@JClark](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JClark)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jogger-killed-by-an-airplane/250978/8 "2010-03-19T18:26:19Z")
It’s not a 747, Jellies. ---
**Author:** ![PJB](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/pjb/32/6389_2.png) [@PJB](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PJB)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 6:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jogger-killed-by-an-airplane/250978/9 "2010-03-19T18:40:17Z")
Im still not buying the fact that nothing around the guy alerted to him that something as big as a plane was coming at him. ---
**Author:** ![Neo187H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/898d66/32.png) [@Neo187H](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Neo187H)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jogger-killed-by-an-airplane/250978/10 "2010-03-19T19:00:46Z")
> [@Finally found a project for me.](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/finally-found-a-project-for-me/30172/62): > > Im still not buying the fact that nothing around the guy alerted to him that something as big as a plane was coming at him. Seriously? Have you seen how small a single engine kit plane can be? It could have been smaller than a Camry, minus the wingspan, and moving at prob over 50MPH. What would you expect to alert him? Maybe a big red sign that said a car sized object is coming out of the sky at 100FPS aimed for the back of your head? ---
**Author:** ![PJB](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/pjb/32/6389_2.png) [@PJB](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PJB)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 7:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jogger-killed-by-an-airplane/250978/11 "2010-03-19T19:04:20Z")
Well youd atleast have to feel the wind/air around you changing due to something flying at you. I mean you notice a fly in your face so youd notice something the size of a plane. ---
**Author:** ![JClark](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jclark/32/6309_2.png) [@JClark](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JClark)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 7:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jogger-killed-by-an-airplane/250978/12 "2010-03-19T19:28:55Z")
Lock 1 for Jellies being tarded. ---
**Author:** ![bennyfizzle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bennyfizzle/32/6291_2.png) [@bennyfizzle](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bennyfizzle)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jogger-killed-by-an-airplane/250978/13 "2010-03-19T19:40:20Z")
YOU NOTICE A FUCKING FLY IN YOUR FACE BECAUSE YOU CAN SEE IT YOU DICKHEAD ---
**Author:** ![Ilya](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ilya/32/6404_2.png) [@Ilya](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ilya)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jogger-killed-by-an-airplane/250978/14 "2010-03-19T19:45:23Z")
:rofl at some of the posts. ---
**Author:** ![Boxersix](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxersix/32/6327_2.png) [@Boxersix](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Boxersix)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jogger-killed-by-an-airplane/250978/15 "2010-03-19T20:42:28Z")
peenut butta jellie tyme! $20 to the first person who sneaks up on PBJ and smacks him in the back of the head while he’s least expecting it. Video footage required for payment. ---
**Author:** ![Ilya](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ilya/32/6404_2.png) [@Ilya](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ilya)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 9:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jogger-killed-by-an-airplane/250978/16 "2010-03-19T21:24:31Z")
lol Adam. That would be priceless. ---
**Author:** ![Cossey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Cossey](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Cossey)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 10:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jogger-killed-by-an-airplane/250978/17 "2010-03-19T22:14:38Z")
PJB must be the dumbest mother fucker alive. Maybe next time, he’ll use his spidey-senses to hear the plane. ---
**Author:** ![TurboTravis](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/turbotravis/32/6406_2.png) [@TurboTravis](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TurboTravis)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 10:20pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jogger-killed-by-an-airplane/250978/18 "2010-03-19T22:20:12Z")
I saw an LSX swapped Cessna once. I could not hear it. Airplanes are quiet. ---
**Author:** ![Alpine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@Alpine](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Alpine)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 10:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jogger-killed-by-an-airplane/250978/19 "2010-03-19T22:43:16Z")
Theres no way you would hear that thing flying at you with NO PROPELLER and NO ENGINE running. If the thing was on you still wouldn’t hear it coming at you, especially with earbud headphones in and music playing. ---
**Author:** ![kramerbuccs24](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/kramerbuccs24/32/6397_2.png) [@kramerbuccs24](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/kramerbuccs24)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 12:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jogger-killed-by-an-airplane/250978/20 "2010-03-20T00:43:24Z")
tears are streaming down my face from this thread. literally 10 epic posts in here [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jogger-killed-by-an-airplane/250978.md?page=2)