Fashion Model walks into Aviat Husky prop!
 

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Well I don't normally object to sick jokes or darwin award jokes if they are funny - but that is not. Why do you think it jokeworthy that a young person, probably with no interest whatsoever in or knowledge about aeroplanes, should be taken unawares with such miserable consequences?

A hot pax swap on a pleasure flight!!!! Is that normal in the US?

We had one in the UK recently that a pax walked forward, off the wing and nearly had there arm off.

Hot pax swaps, dangerously irresponsible, or armless fun.

Discuss.

PURPLE straight to the naughty step. I will join you in a min once I have cleared up the coffee that went up my nose.

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D nice one

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.

There is no ensuring to be done if the engine isn't turning.

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.

PM

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.

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.

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.

Oh really?

I presume sitting in the LHS.

This is awful. As the father of a young daughter, I know how I would feel about this if had happened to her.

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.

In general life, you cant stop idiots doing stupid things. In aviation, as commanders, it is our duty to stop them.

That line is getting stolen for my opening slide in my command course notes.

Cheers Purple.

It serves as a stark reminder to pilots that they are responsible for the safety of those in their charge.