Silly injuries
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From: Perth - Western Australia
And why do all these things happen when there are lots of people watching?
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Just had a SR about a pax that caught his foreskin in his zip today while having a pee in the cruise due to turbulence while zipping.
Sorry I know its not private flying or about an injury by an aircraft even though it was in a aircraft loo.
But......... its really cheered my day up.
Sorry I know its not private flying or about an injury by an aircraft even though it was in a aircraft loo.
But......... its really cheered my day up.
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From: Upper Gumtree
Yes - I've done that, too, Crash One (#2.)
The trouble with baseball caps is that you cannot see anything above eye level, so I never saw that the prop was on a collision course. At the same time, the tough peak saved me from getting a really bad cut. As it was, the cut was on my nose so that I could not wear my glasses, so someone else had to fly the aircraft home.
The trouble with baseball caps is that you cannot see anything above eye level, so I never saw that the prop was on a collision course. At the same time, the tough peak saved me from getting a really bad cut. As it was, the cut was on my nose so that I could not wear my glasses, so someone else had to fly the aircraft home.
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From: Dublin
Every time I try to get out of a Supercub I seem to manage to cause myself an injury. Recently I nearly ripped my scrotum when I missed my footing getting out of the front seat.
I also got hit by the wing of a runaway Tiger Moth as a child. The impact managed to propel me a fair distance across the apron and landed me in hospital.
I also got hit by the wing of a runaway Tiger Moth as a child. The impact managed to propel me a fair distance across the apron and landed me in hospital.
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From: UK
While checking the plane today before heading out, I was looking at the linkages in the ailerons. Unfortunately, I kinda forgot it was a particularly windy day, and didn't hold the aileron up, and it slammed down on my fingers, causing a bit of a cut.
Also if you miss the step getting off the wing of a PA28 you can impale your shin on said step - happened to me and apart from being painful the bruise took a while to heal.
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From: Southwater
Not aviation and I promise that this is true. I had to fetch the accident book to record a head injury sustained by a member of a catering team which was caused thus. "I stood up whllst driving the tow tractor to check that the rear trailer was clear and struck my head on the beware of the low beam sign".
It was hard not to smile as I countersigned the entry.
It was hard not to smile as I countersigned the entry.
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From: Rennes
Did a pre-flight once on a Cessna that was normally parked out in the open. Bent down in front, as one does, to check that no bird had built its nest on the engine block. The moment I did so, an explosion of brown feathers erupted in front of me and I had a momentary glimpse of a razor-sharp yellow bill whiz past my left eyeball at a distance of about half a millimeter, doing a quite incredible rate of knots. How I wasn't blinded by the bloody thing, God alone knows.
Nowadays I slap the side of the cowling loudly a couple of times before bending down.
Nowadays I slap the side of the cowling loudly a couple of times before bending down.
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From: Amsterdam
Winter and icy apron. I was going to move the aircraft, grabbed the propeller at the hub and pulled. My shoes lost their grip and I fell flat beside the nosewheel and broke a bone in my wrist.
Nevertheless, I was better off than my passenger. I was preparing for a flight on behalf of a charity that enables last wishes of terminally ill people. Flying in a light aircraft over his house was this persons last wish before he died. However, the night before he deteriorated significantly, to the extent that he was passing out all the time. So I called off the flight (but only after having pulled the aircraft out of the hangar and hurting myself by slipping). The guy eventually died that same afternoon, in his own warm bed, surrounded by his loved ones. Instead of while being put into a light aircraft on an icy apron, or in the air. I'm still glad I cancelled that flight.
