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Old 10th Mar 2009, 19:10
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Whirlybird

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I just watched the BBC news, and they claimed the prop, which is at the BACK of the gyro, hit the man; they also showed the gyro with a damaged prop. If you were in a gyro and decided to kill someone, how are you going to hit them with something behind you? It seems to me the man ran into the back of the gyro, and the pilot probably never even saw or heard him.

So unless I've got it all totally wrong, let's have no more emotive talk of murder, pro and anti hunting, and other irrelevancies. It seems like a tragic accident.
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