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iPod prevents jogger from hearing plane land on and kill him

velocityg4 said:
The guy was hit by a plane. Why waste taxpayer money when you already know the cause? Do they think someone was expecting the plane to hit him so that they could murder him the instant before?
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My guess it's for the follow on lawsuits.

For example, if Mr. Jogger died of a heart attack at the same time or shortly before, then his death was not due to the airplane and thus there is no lawsuit against the pilot. The autopsy will determine the cause of death.

Again, just a guess.
 
I think there needs to be a warning in the owner's manual not to use iPod's in the vicinity of small single engine aircraft. Just like McDonald's has warning's on their coffee cups warning that the coffee is hot.
 
Gregg2 said:
Yeah, like the scuba diver, in full gear, found dead in the burned out forest after the fire was put out. This happened many years back, if it's true. I didn't search for it. The only thing they could figure was that the guy was scooped up by the helicopter ferrying water from the ocean to the forest fire.
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TOTAL urban legend. I actually got into an argument about this as a teenager in "brat camp". The adult leaders were giving us lowly children crazy scenarios and seeing if we could work them out. This one came up and I argued that it wasn't possible (partially because my grandfather was a fire marshall and I knew at least a little of what I was talking about) and got told off for it. Many years later I find myself vindicated.
 
If I had been listening to music with such a high volume that I couldn't have been able to hear a plane falling on me, I'd bet that would be because my ears had died long before me.
 
I've heard small planes coming in for a landing and they are pretty quiet with their motors running. With no engine they would be silent till the last second.

With a plane coming in at high speed even if he did turn around at the last second it would be hard to react properly. First there is the element of surprise. At 120mph the plane is covering 176 ft per second, more than a football field length in two seconds. Seeing a plane where there should not be one might leave one stunned for a second, that's all it takes. Second, it is very hard to judge directions when things are traveling that fast. Try standing next to a freeway when cars are zooming by. They are very hard to focus on. In Japan I'd stand in the station and watch the Shinkansen zip by at something like 150mph. It was amazing. Close up they are just a blur.
 
I'm deaf, and this is why I always look both ways when crossing the road. Just in case a plane is landing on it. Or aliens are invading behind my back.
 
I know it's wrong, but this popped in my head when I read about it:

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gB
 
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"The plane had lost its propeller and the pilot's vision was blocked by oil on the windshield."

When a plane looses it propeller, that usually means the engine also stopped working of the pilot had to shut it down.

Put it this way:
Imagine you are on highway going 65 mph and put the car in neutral.
The engine will immediately red line and if you don't take gas off will self destruct in seconds.
Plus the fact all the engine would be squirted out the hole where propeller was.

SO, even if the jogger did not have headphones on, he still might not have heard the gliding airplane.
 
PracticalMac said:
Imagine you are on highway going 65 mph and put the car in neutral. The engine will immediately red line and if you don't take gas off will self destruct in seconds.
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It was a turbine. Those things can wind up to ridiculous revs without coming apart.
 
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