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January 4th, 2008, 23:05
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| Junior Member  Join Date: May 2005 Location: Southern Oklahoma
Posts: 202
  |  Be careful out there A ramp worker at Atlantic Aviation FBO in OKC was killed by walking into the prop of a PC-12. He was 26. Heres the news link. http://www.koco.com/news/14973509/detail.html says he was chocking the plane. RIP |
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January 4th, 2008, 23:14
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Orlando FL
Posts: 419
| Re: Be careful out there Unbelievable...........yes....please be careful...
__________________ "Dont be stupid and do stupid things. If you do stupid things then we'll have to fire you." <---------(Director of Flight ops) |
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January 4th, 2008, 23:40
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Memphis, TN
Posts: 111
| Re: Be careful out there I never really like seeing people walking near moving props. 3 or 4 years ago I was pre-flighting a rental and a Cirrus fired up across the ramp from me. I watched as they attempted to go, but were held back by a tie-down chain (hello pre-flight, anyone???). Don't quite remember if it was a passerby or someone from the plane, but the chain was removed, with the engine running, by the person going to the forward part of the wing. I watched wondering if he might trip and fall into the prop arc.  |
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January 4th, 2008, 23:43
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Clear Lake, TX
Posts: 1,161
| Re: Be careful out there My condolences to the family. Extremely tragic event. |
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January 4th, 2008, 23:46
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| Old Skool  Join Date: May 2005 Location: Paradise:)
Posts: 4,415
 | Re: Be careful out there May he RIP  I get nervous watching people near props. Like in Juneau watching the Wings employees plug in the 208 during start up.
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January 5th, 2008, 01:26
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Charlotte, NC
Posts: 425
| Re: Be careful out there RIP Extreme tradgedy. We had a guy at our MEM location go through the same situation, only he got hit in the head with a MU-2 prop, and lived. He's lucky. My condolences for the family of this person.
__________________ "The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goals! The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach." http://abovethehorizon-tlp.blogspot.com/  |
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January 5th, 2008, 08:42
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: CFI / CFII in PA
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| Re: Be careful out there thats horrible |
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January 5th, 2008, 09:22
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| Newbie Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Somewhere in Georgia
Posts: 20
| Re: Be careful out there Quote:
I agree, I've flown 208 and cirrus and have had to use GPU's and always tell the ramp people to step back away from the prop as they unplug it. Coming to an FBO ramp, I've called to assure that the ramper will not attempt to chock the airplane by the nose, they can safely do it on one of the mains in case of a single engine airplane. At an FBO where I used to work, a pilot had problems getting the prop started and hand propped it himself with his wife on board the airplane. Unfortunately, she didn't know anything about airplanes, including the use of brakes and her husband got killed. Safety goes first, ALWAYS! | |
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