Fashion Model walks into Aviat Husky prop!
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Fashion Model walks into Aviat Husky prop!
A fashion model had her hand sliced off and suffered severe facial injuries after accidentally walking into a spinning airplane propeller.
Lauren Scruggs, 23, sustained horrific wounds to her head and shoulder but is now in a stable condition after undergoing emergency treatment where surgeons were forced to amputate her left hand.
Miss Scruggs, who writes a fashion blog, was injured as she climbed out of a two-seater plane at Aero County Airport in McKinney, Texas after a flight to see Christmas lights across the state.
Lauren Scruggs, 23, sustained horrific wounds to her head and shoulder but is now in a stable condition after undergoing emergency treatment where surgeons were forced to amputate her left hand.
Miss Scruggs, who writes a fashion blog, was injured as she climbed out of a two-seater plane at Aero County Airport in McKinney, Texas after a flight to see Christmas lights across the state.
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I've got to side with Trim Stab on this one and perhaps the direction of the posts should be more about ensuring the passengers walk away without losing limbs. Could have easliy have been a fatality.
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Again, another dreadful example of moving propellers and people in close proximity. The two don't mix and for as long as propellers have been around we've known this. There are reasons as to why people might be 'near' moving propellers, but they had better be very good ones with plenty of 'barriers' to prevent this kind of incident.
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Surely this is down to the pilot. I was at an event where two helicopters were giving pleasure rides to children. One pilot insisted stopping the rotors before swapping passengers (he was the one I was helping) the other did every swap "hot". Both were R44's so the dangers were perhaps less as the rotors are pretty high off the ground. They were certainly less than when a convential SEP was being used, but theose guys all stopped the engines first.
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Yep, this'll be on the pilot. In my opinion, there have to be pretty severe circumstances to leave a propeller turning with a passenger exiting. I'll occasionally do it if I have a "qualified" passenger (another pilot, aircraft mechanic), but never a not aircraft familiar person - it's just not worth the risk.
When hot exiting a knowledgeable pax, I always do two things: I turn the aircraft so the path from the exit, to where they will be walking is away from the prop, and I make eye contact while I remind them to watch out for the prop. I've never had a problem.
Wingstruts are a somewhat helpful barrier (which is why Cessna Cardinals were said to have a higher incidence of prop/pax strikes). I wonder how this passenger got around the wingstrut, and back in so close to the aircraft. Pilot parked the plane pointed toward the footpath destination? Doing this at night was a remarkably poor idea. If the woman were to notice the prop during daylight, she would not at night. And then she waved at someone.....
This unfortunate (ok, careless) accident needs lots of publicity among pilots, to remind us of our responsibility to passenger safety.
When hot exiting a knowledgeable pax, I always do two things: I turn the aircraft so the path from the exit, to where they will be walking is away from the prop, and I make eye contact while I remind them to watch out for the prop. I've never had a problem.
Wingstruts are a somewhat helpful barrier (which is why Cessna Cardinals were said to have a higher incidence of prop/pax strikes). I wonder how this passenger got around the wingstrut, and back in so close to the aircraft. Pilot parked the plane pointed toward the footpath destination? Doing this at night was a remarkably poor idea. If the woman were to notice the prop during daylight, she would not at night. And then she waved at someone.....
This unfortunate (ok, careless) accident needs lots of publicity among pilots, to remind us of our responsibility to passenger safety.
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Well you have to ask where the pilot was, setting the tone of safety and such when all this happened....but of course, ban me quick, this is the forum where 200 hour pilots are not only qualified to fly airliners, but entitled to.
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This is awful. As the father of a young daughter, I know how I would feel about this if had happened to her.
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Its not sitting well with me to be honest either tourist.
Although after PURPLES one liner I had to have a word with myself.
There is a young girl who is pretty much a lump of mince meat with more than likely brain damage who got this way through lack of duty of care of a professional pilot/ operation.
I don't agree that we should protect idiots of this world from themselves but there is a level of risk which the public shouldn't be exposed to.
I have never been happy sitting in the seat while engineers do leak checks on our engines 75cm behind the fans. But they tell me its an acceptable risk. Have refused to do it with one engineer because I didn't trust him not do something stupid.
Joe public, presume they are thick and will do something stupid if they possibly can.
Although after PURPLES one liner I had to have a word with myself.
There is a young girl who is pretty much a lump of mince meat with more than likely brain damage who got this way through lack of duty of care of a professional pilot/ operation.
I don't agree that we should protect idiots of this world from themselves but there is a level of risk which the public shouldn't be exposed to.
I have never been happy sitting in the seat while engineers do leak checks on our engines 75cm behind the fans. But they tell me its an acceptable risk. Have refused to do it with one engineer because I didn't trust him not do something stupid.
Joe public, presume they are thick and will do something stupid if they possibly can.
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I'm known for my sometimes inappropriate sense of humour but I'm appalled that so-called professional pilots could find the maiming of a passenger in any way amusing.