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Hey; wait a minute here; the Huskey pictured in the link has the same exit procedure as any high wing Cessna I've ever flown in. Either a step pad or stirrup (as pictured) attached to the back side of the wheel strut for the first step before next stepping onto terra firma and that is BEHIND the wing struts.
You exit butt first with your one hand using the strut for a hand-rail while putting your foot into/onto the stirrup/pad, same as if you're going to skydive out of one.
You need to be completely distracted to turn around and walk back through the prop-arc to engage the pilot in a conversation with the engine running; they ain't the quietest thing out there and they aren't turbine so there'd be no quiet wind-down.
Poor lady just wasn't thinking. I bet that pilot shuts down in the future before allowing anyone out of his aircraft save other pilots. We all hate hot starts and quick shut downs without proper turbo cool downs but perhaps for some passengers you'd be better to taxi around in circles for a bit before parking, shutting down and letting them out of the thing.
Fantasy of Flight owner operator after a display flight of a P51 Mustang: "O.K. folks you can approach the aircraft and touch it if you desire but please refrain from touching the hot parts."
Smart ass in audience: "which ones would those be"?
Pilot: "the ones that leave a burn on your hand after touching them". Yeeehaw!
The very first time I flew in an aircraft in my life was in a Cessna. Never since and never again! Nothing smaller than a 737 and I prefer larger than that. Southwest Air remains my favorite chain to fly, and have flown with them literally more than I can count. Only bummer is that they use planes as small as 737 because of so many short flights, argh.
I dont like SW because your ticket may say Ft Lauderdale , but that dosnt mean you will not make 5 stops along the way.
About 15-20 years ago an executive for Chicago based AON corp. walked into the tilted blades of a helicopter and was instantly killed, same sort of deal.
There is a particularily nasty website that shows various nasty pictures and they had one of a Danish (or somesuch) frigate with a helo-pad where a sailor had the top couple inches taken off his head and it actually popped his brain out onto the deck with the impact. O.O
Stuff happens, we've all had our "oh crap" moments. Glad she isn't dead.
Makes me sad, he should have shut the engine down.
I've been flying for over 40 years and hold a commercial pilots license along with basic and advanced flight instructor certificates. It is the pilot in command who is responsible for passenger safety from the time he starts that engine to the time he shuts if off.
I could not imagine allowing a non-pilot passenger to get out of an airplane with the prop still spinning.
Sometimes aircraft ramps can be noisy places, it was dark and you can't see a spinning prop. Tragic story that should not have happened.
I wonder if there is a pattern for this poor girl.
She does something really stupid with life changing results. People try to blame others for her mistake.
I'd say the odds are she is an Obama voter.
I didn't see where she blamed anyone but some folks here are certainly pointing fingers at the pilot. It wasn't the pilot who walked into the prop.
But all that's beside the point. The title of the thread is very misleading. It seems to make the assumption that flying in a small plane is dangerous when clearly the flight was quite successful. The title should be "Another Reason Not To Walk Into A Propeller."
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