From my old man, an Ansett engineer.
I sent the link to this PPrune post to my Father and this was his reply:
Good Morning Son,
Thanks for that article, i was indeed involved in the incident, and came in that night at 2200hrs for night shift. My first job of the night was to take the mobile water truck down the tarmac to the F27 parking area, and wash what wasw left of the poor porter off the tarmac, once the Federal Police had finished collecting the larger bits!!
The man who was killed had the job of placing the stairs at the rear of the aircraft, and then unloading the forward baggage area. His fatal mistake was walking along the fuselage to get to the front locker, because their is not much clearance between the left hand prop and the fuselage, and even though the engine had been shutdown, the props on an F27 take up to eighty seconds to run down, and of course there is hardly any sound in this situation.
It took quite a while for me and my mates on that shift to get over that tragic event, and hopefully made us all aware of the dangers of working on a busy tarmac.
Take care old boy, your Dad.